Alexandra Milanova, PhD, is assistant professor at the Institute of Balkan Studies and Centre of Thracology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. She is also a lecturer at Sofia University and Osaka University. She has been repeatedly awarded for her outstanding achievements in the field of Humanities and Social Sciences. Alexandra is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a councillor of Europeana Network Association, and the first and only representative of Bulgaria to date in the Global Youth Academy (GYA).

Ana-Maria Lepar, PhD, is a member of the Balkan History Association. In 2015, she completed her doctoral dissertation on the history of Bucharest in the 18th and 19th centuries at the Nicolae Iorga Institute of History at the Romanian Academy, Bucharest. Between 2013 and 2021, she was assistant lecturer in history at the Faculty of History, University of Bucharest. Her research focuses on the history of Bucharest in the modern period.