Laura Demeter is a researcher at the Centre for Heritage Conservation Studies and Technologies at the Otto-Friedrich University of Bamberg. She holds a PhD in cultural heritage management and development (2017). Her research focuses on heritage-making processes in the context of conflict and regime change, discourses of value creation, and war damage documentation.

Carmen M. Enss is an architectural historian and specialist in urban conservation at the Centre for Heritage Conservation Studies and Technologies at the University of Bamberg. She is head of the UrbanMetaMapping research network.

Piotr Kisiel is a historian affiliated with the Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space (IRS), specialising in urban history, heritage and nationalism studies. After studying law and history in Poland and Scotland, he completed his PhD in Florence.

Carol Ludwig is a social geographer and city planner, with expertise in postwar planning strategies and heritage conservation at Saarland University. She has worked in planning practice and universities in UK and Germany.