Dylan Burns is assistant professor of the History of Western Esotericism in Late Antiquity at the Universiteit van Amsterdam. Co-editor of Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies, his research focuses on ancient Gnosticism, later Greek philosophy, and Manichaeism.

Paola Buzi is professor of Egyptology and Coptic Studies at Sapienza University in Rome. She combines historical, literary and codicological interests with archaeological activities. She is principal investigator of the project "Tracking Papyrus and Parchment Paths: An Archaeological Atlas of Coptic Literature". 

Gražina Kelmelytė is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Classical Philology at Vilnius University. Beginning in 2025, she serves as a researcher in the project “Incorporating Alternative Early Christian Texts (Nag Hammadi Corpus) into the Lithuanian Cultural Field: Translation and Hermeneutics.” 

Frederic Krueger is an Egyptologist and post-doctoral researcher at Freie Universität Berlin, currently serving as the Office Manager (Arbeitsstellenleiter) for the DDGLC project (Database and Dictionary of Greek Loanwords in Coptic). 

Philippe Luisier is a full professor at the Pontifical Oriental Institute (PIO) in Rome, where he has taught Coptic and other subjects related to the Christian East since 1993. He also lectures on Coptic at the Pontifical Biblical Institute. 

Ivan Miroshnikov is a specialist in Early Christian studies and Coptic philology. He is currently a Pro Futura Scientia Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study and a researcher at Lund University. Additionally, he holds affiliations as a Docent at the University of Helsinki

Tito Orlandi is a renowned scholar in Coptic studies and a pioneer in Digital Humanities, recognized for his foundational work on the history and classification of Coptic literature. He is Professor Emeritus at Sapienza University of Rome and has served as the Honorary President of the International Association for Coptic Studies.

Sebastian Richter is currently a professor at the Freie Universität Berlin, specializing in Egyptology. He has served as a co-editor for several prestigious academic journals, including the Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete and the Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde. 

GianMarco Schiesaro serves as a Research Fellow at the Waldensian Faculty of Theology in Rome, where he contributes to academic programs in Early Christianity. He is also an active member of The Coptic Studies Group within the faculty.

Jens Schröter is professor of New Testament and Ancient Christian Apocrypha at Humboldt University Berlin, Germany. His research areas include the historical Jesus, Paul, the Acts of the Apostles, the formation of the New Testament canon and the ancient Christian Apocrypha.

Vittorio Secco is Research Assistant at the Waldensian Faculty of Theology in Rome, where he has been teaching Sahidic Coptic language since 2022. He is pursuing a doctoral degree in New Testament and Apocryphal Literature at the Faculty of Protestant Theology of Humboldt University in Berlin.

Lothar Vogel is teaching Church History in the Waldensian Faculty of Theology in Rome since 2006. He holds a PhD in Theology from the University of Marburg (1999), where he completed his doctoral thesis in the field of early medieval hagiography. He is the Director of the Coptic Summer School at the Waldensian Faculty of Theology.