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Tim Brandes studied Assyriology and Egyptology at the Georg-August-University Göttingen. Afterwards he joined the Research Training Group “Early Concepts of Human and Nature” at Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz where he wrote his dissertation about the Babylonian-Assyrian concept of time in nature and society of the 1st millennium BCE. Currently, Tim Brandes is a Research associate in the project “Digital Edition of the Cuneiform Texts from Haft Tappeh (Iran)” at Mainz University, funded by the German Research Foundation since 2019.

Timo Homburg studied Computer Science with emphasis on Computational Linguistics, Semantic Web and Chinese studies and in the last years worked in the GIS field to integrate geospatial data with Semantic Web technologies. His PhD thesis deals with semantic geospatial data integration and the quality of geospatial data in this Semantic Web context. Another research interest of him is the Digital Humanities where he published in the area of Digital Cuneiform studies and developed several digital tools to deal with cuneiform languages.

Eva-Maria Huber is currently postdoc in the department Ancient Near Eastern Philology at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. She has written her dissertation on texts of an administrative archive from southern Mesopotamia which dates back to the end of the 3rd millennium BC. Her research interests are Sumerian administration, extralinguistical features and palaeography.