Notker Baumann (1975), Ph.D., University of Erfurt; Professor of Ancient Church History, Patrology, and Christian Archaeology at that university; doctorate at the Pontificium Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum, Rome; habilitation at University of Würzburg.
Jens Marius Gehri (1995), M.Ed., University of Erfurt, is a research assistant at the Chair of Patrology. As part of his doctoral thesis, he is compiling a critical edition of Gregory Nazianzen’s Dogmatic Poems with commentary and German translation.
Alberto Nigra (1988), Ph.D., Theological Faculty of Northern Italy, Section of Turin; Professor of Patrology, Ancient Church History, and Biblical Greek; doctorate at the Pontificium Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum, Rome. His main area of interest is patristic Christology (4th-8th centuries).
Antonio Stefano Sembiante (1989), Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow at Italian Institute for Ancient History (Rome). He studies Late Antique Greek literature and Syriac translations from Greek. He edited the Syriac translation of Plutarch’s De cohibenda ira (Peeters 2025) and translated into Italian Gregory of Nyssa's Antirrheticus (Morcelliana 2026).
Francesco Vanoni (1998), Ph.D., University of Genoa and EPHE Paris, with a dissertation on the critical edition of Nicephorus, Antirrhetici I–II. His research focuses on late-antique and Byzantine patristic texts and manuscripts, with particular attention to philology, transmission, and doctrinal controversy.
Matteo Raterio Poiani (b. 1995), Ph.D., is a member of the Benedictine community of Praglia Abbey (Padua). His research focuses on Evagrius and his reception in Latin and Syriac traditions, especially among East Syriac mystics, and on fifth-century Syriac poetry (Cyrillona and Isaac of Antioch).