Dr Bauer is a lecturer at Maynooth University in Ireland. He specialises in Celtic studies, particularly cultural and linguistic contact between Great Britain and Ireland in the early Middle Ages. He is currently a member of the Chronologicon Hibernicum project, which aims to use statistical methods to improve the methods of dating early medieval Irish literary texts.

Dr Dekker is a Senior Lecturer in Old English at the University of Groningen. He is an expert in Old English encyclopaedic knowledge (including its dissemination through manuscripts, notes and glosses) and in treatments of Old English and Old Germanic texts during the early modern period.

Dr Griffin lectures on medieval and early-modern English at the University of Limerick (Ireland) where she is a member of the Limerick Centre for Early Modern Studies. Her research covers late medieval and early modern print and manuscript cultures, as well as instructional and scientific cultures, women’s writing and medievalisms. Her monograph, Instructional Writing in English, 1350-1650: Materiality and Meaning, was published by Routledge in 2019. She is currently co-editing a collection of medieval recipes with Dr Hannah Ryley and is compiling a volume of the Index of Middle English Prose for the Wellcome Library.

Dr Conti (PhD, Central European University, 2011) is a lecturer in history at John Cabot University in Rome, Italy. His research focuses on the history of magic and witchcraft from the classical to the early-modern period. Prof. Conti is currently co-editing the volume ‘There is No One Who Does Not Fear To Be Spellbound’: Magic in the Roman World (8th c. BCE – 5 th c. CE), and he has published the edited volume Civilizations of the Supernatural: Ritual, Witchcraft, and Religious Experience in Late Antique, Medieval, and Renaissance Traditions, (Trivent, 2020), as well as the monograph Witchcraft, Superstition, and Observant Franciscan Preachers: Pastoral Approach and Intellectual Debate in Renaissance Milan (Brepols, 2015).

Dr Jarray is a lecturer at the University of Tunis, a member of the Laboratory of Archaeology and Architecture of the Maghreb and President of the Tunisian Association for Shared Heritage. He is an Expert at the Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (ALECSO). His research interests include the history of science and the history of astronomy, and he has published many studies and books regarding sundials and Islamic Epigraphy. In 2015 he published his first book, The Measurement of Time in Tunisia Through History.

Dr Bisagni researches and lectures in historical linguistics at the National University of Ireland in Galway. His work focuses on the transmission and reception of early medieval Irish literature in both Old Irish and Latin, with a special emphasis on the treatment of the Classical tradition in medieval Irish sources and the exchange of computistical and exegetical works between Ireland and the Carolingian Empire.

Mark E. Bailey MBE MRIA, Emeritus Director of Armagh Observatory, served as Director of Armagh Observatory from 1995 to 2016.  His research interests range from small bodies of the solar system (comets, asteroids, interplanetary dust) to extragalactic astronomy and aspects of local history and the history of astronomy.  Bailey oversaw expansion of the Observatory through the appointment of additional research staff, inclusionof the Observatory in new international projects, and the installation of anew telescope (the Armagh Robotic Telescope) and the creation of the Human Orrery.  Minor planet (4050) was named Mebailey for his work on the originof comets. Latterly, his main areas of interest have been the history and philosophy of astronomy, meteorology and climate change, and the improvement of public understanding of science. Along with Victor Clube and Bill Napier, he is co-author of The Origin of Comets (1990).

Dr Polloni is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven and was previously a visiting fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Oct-Dec 2019). His research interests are premodern philosophy, especially the ontological constitution of non-living substances, as it was discussed by the natural philosophers of the medieval period.

Prof. Liuzza is Associate Head Professor of English at the University of Tennessee (USA) specialising in Old English language and literature. He has a special interest in textual criticism and in Anglo-Saxon science and medicine. His current work is on the Anglo-Saxon sense of time in scientific, historical, and literary works. He is a former editor of the Old English Newsletter and of the Dictionary of Old English, published by the University of Toronto.

Tom McLeish is professor in Natural Philosophy, Physics of Life Research Group at the University of York. He is a physicist, academic interdisciplinary leader, and writer. He is inaugural Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Department of Physics at the University of York and is also affiliated to the University’s Centre for Medieval Studies and Humanities Research Centre. His interdisciplinary academic interests include the framing of science, theology, society and history, and the theory of creativity in art and science, leading to the recent books Faith and Wisdom in Science, The Poetry and Music of Science and Soft-Matter (Part of OUP's Very Short Introduction series). He co-leads the Ordered Universe project and sits on the Council of the Royal Society.

Prof. Langermann is Professor Emeritus in Arabic Studies at Bar Ilan University. His main interests are on Medieval Science and Philosophy (Jewish and Islamic), Jewish Manuscript Studies, Hebrew and Arabic medicine and the study of scientific manuscripts.

Dr Griffin works on late medieval visual culture, particularly that related to time, technology, and diagrams. After studying her BA at the University of Cambridge and MA at the Courtauld Institute, Sarah wrote a DPhil thesis at the University of Oxford on the diagrams of Opicinus de Canistris (1296­–c. 1352). She has held research fellowships at the Huntington Library, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, and Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. Collaboration with museums is essential to her research; she has worked in a curatorial capacity at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Winchester College, and with multiple collections as a researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute. Sarah is currently a Frances A. Yates Long-Term Fellow at The Warburg Institute.

Dr Shazia Jagot is Lecturer in Medieval and Global Literature at the University of York. She is currently writing her first monograph on Chaucer's use of Arabic Learning and Medieval Science.