Dahlia Shehata, PhD (2004) in Ancient Near Eastern Studies, University of Göttingen, is research associate for Assyriology at the University of Freiburg, Germany. She has published on different topics dealing Mesopotamian music. Since 2008 she holds a research and teaching scholarship dealing with the Akkadian Anzu-Myth and the concept of demonic creatures in the Ancient Near East.
Frauke Weiershäuser, PhD (2004) in Ancient Near Eastern Studies, University of Göttingen, is research associate at the Institute for Assyriologiy at the University of Heidelberg. She worked on The Royal Women of the Ur III-Dynasty (published 2008 in Göttingen). Since 2004 her main field of research has been the lexical texts from Assur.
Kamran V. Zand, PhD (2009) in Ancient Near Eastern Studies, is research associate at the Institute for Languages and Cultures of the Near East, Department of Assyriology at the University of Jena. His main fields of research are the earliest known Sumerian literature and the orthographic traditions of the third millennium B.C. (Standard Orthography/UD.GAL.NUN).