Dr. Theodoros Karampaglidis is a postdoctoral researcher conducting his research into landscape reconstruction by employing geomorphological sedimentary-stratigraphic-GIS techniques, backed by cutting edge dating methods like Terrestrial Cosmogenic Nuclides (TCN) ¹⁰Be-²⁶Al -³⁶Cl.  This dating method can be applied to both earth sciences as well as on archaeological questions. At present, he is part of an international interdisciplinary project at the Ararat Basin (AB), Armenia, funded by the Thyssen Foundation (Germany) and the European Research Council Executive Agency (ERC). His role in this project is based on a new approach, from an interdisciplinary and innovative holistic point of view, that incorporate landscape evolution as part of the understanding of past human adaptations. This research is emphasizing how geological processes and global climate changes affect surrounding landforms and site formation – preservation, as well as hominin lifeways.

David Nora did his Bachelor and Master degrees in Archaeology at the University of Algarve, Portugal. His Master's topic was "The role of lithic raw materials on tool performance and use: the efficiency and durability on stone tools edge" under the supervision of João Marreiros (Professor at the University of Évora and Group Leader of the Traceology Laboratory at Römisch Germanisches Zentralmuseum, Germany) and Vera Aldeias (Invited Researcher at Interdisciplinary Center for Archaeology and Evolution of Human Behaviour (ICArEHB), Portugal).

As a Ph.D. researcher at the Institute of Archaeology of the Hebrew University, he will be developing his research on the variability of the lithic technology from the Middle Paleolithic of Armenia in order to understand the population dynamics of hunter-gathers in the Southern Caucasus, under the supervision of Dr. Ariel Malinsky-Buller (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and Prof. Erella Hovers (Hebrew University of Jerusalem). Apart from his main research topic, David Nora also has an interest in computer and quantitative applications in archaeological practice, particularly the application and development of new digital methods and tools for data collection and analysis in the field and lab.

Ioannis Oikonomou holds a BA in Archaeology and Art History from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and an MPhil in Archaeological Science from the University of Cambridge. As a student, he has been involved in several excavations of prehistoric and historical-era sites in Greece. He is interested in Geoarchaeology, Archaeological Science and Theory, with particular emphasis on the study of past societies and populations through the examination of their depositionary record.

His MPhil dissertation, titled as ‘Deciphering Site Formation Processes and Human Activities at the Neolithic Lakeside Settlement of Dispilio: A Micro-Geoarchaeological Approach’, supervised by C.A.I. French (University of Cambridge), is a recent example of his work. As a PhD researcher of the TransCause project, he will focus on the geoarchaeological and multi-proxy examination of Middle Palaeolithic caves and open-air sites from the Southern Caucasus/Armenia. The utilisation of an array of micromorphological, chemical, and sedimentological techniques, as well as the study of phytoliths, will allow the integration of hominin activity within its sedimentary, spatial, and palaeoenvironmental context, followed by insights about the mode of occupation. His PhD will be supervised by Dr. A. Malinsky-Buller (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Dr. D. Friesem (University of Haifa), and Dr. S. Gur-Arieh (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München).

Netanel Paz did his B.A. and M.A. in archeology at the Institute of Archeology of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His masters' thesis dealt with social structure and dynamics of the Early Bronze Age site of Tel Qashish. Under the supervision of Prof. Leore Grosman and Dr. Sarit Paz. His research interests are Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age archeology. Experimental archeology as a means to better understand the implications of raw material properties on tools manufacture and use. Currently he is working as lab manager at the Human-Environment Dynamics Laboratory lead by Dr. Ariel Malinsky-Buller.

Dominik Rogall did his Bachelor and Master degrees in Archaeology at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität (Mainz, Germany). His Master's thesis topic is “Middle Paleolithic hominins in their environment: a multi-proxy approach reconstructing past hominin behavior, environment, and site formation. An investigation of Ararat-1 cave, Armenia.” Under the supervision of Dr. Ariel Malinsky-Buller (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Dr. Monika Knul (University of Winchester), and Dr. Jenni Sherriff (Royal Holloway University of London). Now he is a PhD research student at the Institute of Archaeology of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has a special interest in the study of herpetofaunal and small mammalian remains as well as taphonomic processes. His current research focuses on herpetofaunal and small mammalian remains as a proxy for paleoenvironmental reconstruction in Armenia in order to understand Middle Paleolithic population dynamics in the Southern Caucasus. The research will be conducted under the supervision of Dr. Ariel Malinsky-Buller (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Dr. Hugues-Alexandre Blain (Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana I Evolució Social), and Dr. Juan Manuel López Garcá (Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana I Evolució Social).