Hélène Njoto, a French-Indonesian historian, is a researcher at EFEO in Jakarta. With a PhD in Art and Architecture History, her dissertation on early modern Javanese architecture earned her two publication grants. She directs a research collaboration with BRIN that focuses on Javanese art and architecture from the early Islamic period (15th-early 18th c.). She is a member of Archipel’s editorial committee, a French academic journal specialising in Maritime Southeast Asia.

Noel Hidalgo Tan, a Singaporean, is the Senior Specialist in Archaeology at SEAMEO SPAFA in Bangkok. He oversees the programmes related to Southeast Asian Archaeology and serves as the editor of the SPAFA Journal. His research speciality is in Southeast Asian rock art, and also has interests in heritage tourism and underwater cultural heritage. He also manages the Southeast Asian Archaeology resource page.

Chotima Chaturawong, an Associate Professor at Silpakorn University, specialises in Southeast Asian art and architecture. With a B.Arch, M.Arch, and a PhD in History of Art, her research focuses on Burmese Buddhist monastery architecture in Upper Burma and northern Thailand. She has published extensively on Myanmar and Southeast Asian architecture, including works such as Buddha Shrines: An Architectural Comparison of Thailand, Myanmar, and Sri Lanka and articles on Vishnu Anantasayin reliefs, Ayutthaya and Burma, and mandapas in India, Sri Lanka, Burma, and Thailand.

Do Truong Giang served as general secretary of Southeast Asian Ceramic Society (Singapore) during the 2013-2014 term. He has spoken at numerous academic events in Singapore and overseas conferences in Japan, China, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, France, and the Netherlands. Giang is currently Head of the Department of Information and International Cooperation, Institute of Imperial Citadel Studies, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences. Giang is also part of research projects on the Thang Long Imperial Citadel site in Hanoi and the excavation at Oc Eo in Southern Vietnam.

Eko Bastiawan completed Postgraduate Diploma in Asian Art (2016) and Master in History of Art and Archaeology (2017) at SOAS, University of London. His Master research focused on groups of miniature bronzes from Central and East Java. He has been part of the DHARMA project since 2019 and is currently a PhD Student at Universitas Padjadjaran with a doctoral fellowship from the EFEO.

Farouk Yahya, a Research Associate at SOAS University of London, specialises in the Southeast Asian arts of the book, magic, and divination. Previously, he served as a Leverhulme Research Assistant at the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, contributing to an exhibition on Islamic art and the supernatural. He is the author of Magic and Divination in Malay Illustrated Manuscripts and edited works such as The Arts of Southeast Asia from the SOAS Collections and Islamicate Occult Sciences in Theory and Practice.

Heidi Tan, a founding curator of the Asian Civilisations Museum in Singapore, played a pivotal role in developing Southeast Asian collections, with a focus on Chinese and Southeast Asian ceramics. She completed her thesis on Meritorious Curating in Myanmar (2020). She now lectures on museology at the School of Arts at SOAS and works on publishing her thesis and restitution issues in Southeast Asia.

Heng Piphal (Ph.D., University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, 2018) is a postdoctoral scholar with Cotsen Institute of Archaeology (UCLA). Heng was an American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) postdoctoral fellow at UCLA (2022-2023), an ACLS-Robert H. N. Ho fellowship in Buddhist Studies at Northern Illinois University (2019-2021), and Interim Associate Director for the Center for Southeast Asian Studies (University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa) from 2021-2022. His research sits at the intersection between heritage management, engaged archaeology, and urban development.

Imran bin Tajudeen, a Senior Lecturer at the National University of Singapore, specialises in topics related to identity, representation, urban history, and built cultural heritage. His research focuses on architectural encounters in Singapore and maritime Southeast Asia, and he has received recognition for his doctoral dissertation. He is actively involved in publishing and is currently working on a monograph on Southeast Asia’s mosques.

Mathilde Mechling, who obtained her PhD in 2020, conducted research on Hindu and Buddhist bronze statuary in the Indonesian Archipelago, employing an interdisciplinary approach that encompassed stylistic analysis, archaeometallurgy, archaeology, and religious aspects. She recently co-authored a publication on Indonesian bronze statues from the Musée National des Arts Asiatiques - Guimet and is also a member of the scientific committee of the CAST:ING project.

Nasha bin Rodziadi Khaw is a lecturer at Universiti Sains Malaysia, specialising in historical archaeology and the ancient city-states of the Malay Peninsula. He completed his MA thesis on the historiography of Old Kedah and a PhD in Archaeology at the University of Peshawar, focusing on documenting and interpreting Sanskrit inscriptions. Dr. Nasha has published extensively on history and archaeology of Ancient Kedah, including political and trade relations between China and the Malay world, and he also specialises in epigraphy and palaeography.

Natalie S.Y. Ong was Visiting Fellow (2021–2022) at the Temasek History Research Centre of ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute where her research on the gold ornaments of 14th-century Singapore was recently published. At KITLV, she is involved in a book project examining Indian philosophical influences on Old Javanese art and architecture. She specialises in the material culture of pre-Islamic island Southeast Asia, with an emphasis on the scientific, cultural and sociological phenomena present in ancient jewellery.

Noorashikin Zulkifli, curator of Islamic art at the Asian Civilisations Museum (ACM), played a key role in developing the Islamic Art gallery. She curated ‘Ilm: Science and Imagination in the Islamic World, as well as Body and Spirit, an interfaith exhibition on the human body in thought and practice. She is also involved with the revamped Peranakan Museum, with a particular interest in Muslim Peranakan communities, and her research centers on Islamic Southeast Asia.

Phacharaphorn Phanomvan is a medieval economic historian, archaeologist, and heritage policy consultant. She co-founded the Si Thorani Institute, a Bangkok-based organisation dedicated to sustainable historic landscape management, natural capital investments, and economic development. She lectures at Chulalongkorn University, and was a lecturer at the University of Oxford, and research fellow at the University College London.

Sandra Sardjono is the Founder and President of the Tracing Patterns Foundation, which focuses on textile study and indigenous scholarships. With a research emphasis on Southeast Asian textile patterns and weaving technologies, she earned her art history doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley. She has held positions as an Assistant Curator of Costume and Textiles at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and as a Textile Conservator at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York.

Shinatria Adhityatama, a maritime archaeologist and PhD candidate at Griffith University, Australia, has extensive experience managing archaeological programmes and training in Indonesia and Australia. He has published widely in prestigious journals and was involved in managing the loss of historic ships in Indonesian waters as part of the Indonesian delegation in the Joint Expert Meeting.

Ye Myat Lwin, with eight years of experience in the Department of Archaeology and National Museum in Myanmar, has worked as a tutor in the Field School of Archaeology and as a Junior Research Officer in the Division of World Heritage Sites and Bagan Archaeological Museum. He holds an MA in Archaeology from Yangon University and is currently pursuing studies in Archaeological Material Science at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.