Eric C. De Sena (Executive Director of AISEES) is a classical archaeologist who teaches history and art history for Manhattanville College and Manhattan College (previously professor of ancient art and archaeology at John Cabot University and archaeological associate/curator of the American Academy in Rome). A National Geographic Explorer, De Sena has participated on projects in Rome, Pompeii, and Ostia Antica. He co-directed the Porolissum Forum Project (northwestern Romania) with Alexandru Matei and Robert Wanner 2006-2011. Prior to his return to the USA in 2018, De Sena served a 3-year term as Director of the American Research Center in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Maria Baramova (AISEES Regional Director for Bulgaria) is the president of the AISEES Bulgarian Centre, located in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Lucian Mircea Muresan (AISEES Regional Director for Romania) is the president of the “Istros” Society for Historical Sciences, a Romanian NGO that promotes the history and cultural heritage of the western Black Sea region within academia and among the general public. Lucian is a Roman historian and archaeologist, whose research focused upon the relation between Barbaricum and the Roman world in the Middle and Lower Danube region. With degrees in both Classical Antiquity and Jurisprudence, his more recent studies are related to ancient Roman law, especially in the former Empire’s provinces in South-Eastern Europe.