Committee

Committee ASEB/SGBS/SSSB 2025

President: Manuela Studer
Manuela Studer-Karlen studied Early Christian Archaeology and Byzantine Art History in Fribourg (CH), obtained her doctorate in 2010 with a thesis on sarcophagus art, and has been an SNF PRIMA Professor at the University of Bern since 2021. Her book entitled Christus Anapeson. Bild und Liturgie (Christ Anapeson: Image and Liturgy) will be published at the end of 2022. For this work, with which she habilitated at Johannes Gutenberg University, she received the Franz Josef II von Liechtenstein Prize from the University of Fribourg in 2017. Her research focuses on visual cultural history and the processes of transformation in late antiquity, the interaction of text, image and space in Byzantine churches, and Georgian art in the Middle Ages.

• https://www.ikg.unibe.ch/ueber_uns/personendaten/prof_dr_studer_karlen_manuela/index_ger.html
• https://unibe-ch.academia.edu/ManuelaStuderKarlen

Vice-President : Maria Campagnolo-Pothitou
Maria Campagnolo-Pothitou is a founding member of ASEB and a research associate at the Numismatic Cabinet of the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire in Geneva, where she is responsible for the Byzantine numismatic and seal collections. She holds a bachelor’s degree in history and archaeology from the University of Athens (1979–1984) and a bachelor’s degree in Arabic and history from the University of Geneva (1986–1993).
Main publications:

• « Les échanges de prisonniers entre Byzance et l’islam aux IX^e et X^e siècles », in Journal of Oriental and African studies, Athens. – No 7 (1995), p. 1-56 (mémoire de licence)
• « Deux monnaies byzantines rares et inédites : des tremisses de Michel III (842-867) », Schweizer Münzblätter, 2010, Vol. 60 (237), p. 18-24.
• « “Comme un relent d’iconoclasme” au début du XII^e siècle. Le témoignage de la sigillographie », in  Matteo Campagnolo, Paul Magdalino, Marielle Martiniani-Reber, André-Louis Rey (éd.), L’aniconisme dans l’art religieux byzantin. – Actes du colloque de Genève (1-3 octobre 2009), Genève, 2014, p. 175-191, Genève, 2015, p. 175 – 195.
• « La bulle de 5 solidi (pentasoldhia) de Constantin IX Monomaque (1042-1055) », Studies in Byzantine sigillography 12, Berlin : De Gruyter, 2016, p. 71-81.
• (avec Jean-Claude Cheynet), Les sceaux de la collection George Zacos au Musée d’art et d’histoire de Genève, Genève, Musée d’art et d’histoire, Milan, 5 Continents, 2016, 521 pages (catalogue raisonné).
• (avec Pantelis Charalampakis), « The Radenos family : a prosopographic study   through literary and sigillographic evidence », Revue des études byzantines 77, 2019, p. 5-106
• « Deux nouveaux hyperpères contremarqués de Jean III Doukas-Βatatzès (1222-1254). Retour sur la question », 2024 (sous presse dans Numizmatika, Sfragistika i Epigrafika 18).

Secretary: André-Louis Rey
After studying in Geneva, Oxford and Paris, André-Louis Rey developed a curriculum for Byzantine Greek language, literature and civilisation, as well as for the ecdotics of Greek texts, at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Geneva, where he was a senior lecturer until 2024. He devoted his doctoral thesis to the first complete and annotated edition of one of the collections of Christian Homeric centos, which was published with a French translation in the Sources Chrétiennes series (vol. 437) under the title Patricius, Eudocie, Optimus, Côme de Jérusalem, Centons homériques, Paris 1998. His research interests focus in particular on the history of Christian monasticism, Byzantine poetry (Georges de Pisidie, Constantin Manassès), the transmission of medical texts (Traités humoraux de Galien), the cataloguing of the Greek manuscript collection of the Bibliothèque de Genève (in particular the Genavensis gr.44 of the Iliad), and the study and French translation of Isaac Casaubon’s Ephémérides.

Treasurer: Renate Burri
Renate Burri studied classical philology and Russian language and literature at the Universities of Bern, St. Petersburg and Khabarovsk and received her doctorate in Greek philology from the University of Göttingen. Her doctoral thesis on the Greek manuscripts of Ptolemy’s Geography was awarded the Christian-Gottlob Heyne Prize by the Graduate School of Humanities in Göttingen.
Renate Burri worked as a research assistant in classical philology (Universities of Bern and Göttingen), early church history (Humboldt University of Berlin and University of Bern) and Byzantine studies (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna). She also received numerous scholarships to renowned research institutions in Europe and the USA. Since July 2024, she has been a lecturer in Greek and Latin language and literature at the Department of Classical Philology at the University of Fribourg (CH).
Her research focuses on Byzantine manuscripts, the history of the transmission of ancient works, the history of science (especially ancient geography), the intellectual scene of the Palaiologos period, and Greek and Byzantine epistolography.

• https://www.unifr.ch/directory/fr/people/401409/bffc7
• https://unifr-ch.academia.edu/RenateBurri

Webmaster: Frederick G. W. Eberhardt
Frederick Eberhardt completed his master’s degree in Byzantine Studies and Modern Greek Studies at the University of Vienna in 2024. He is currently completing an internship as a history educator at the Museum Aargau.

Gabriella Lini
Gabriella Lini is head of the Documentation and Research Centre at the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire in Geneva, whose tasks include managing the collection database, cataloguing the works and cultural heritage archives, and digitally disseminating scientific documentation. She specialises in the Roman (late antiquity) and Byzantine periods and holds a doctorate in literature with a focus on ‘Art and Archaeology of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages’ from the University of Geneva and the Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana in Rome. Her doctoral thesis was a study of Christian topography based on the analysis of archaeological remains and objects: ‘La péninsule de Cnide. Évolution topographique de la cité et de son territoire à l’époque byzantine : les données archéologiques’ (The peninsula of Cnidus. Topographical evolution of the city and its territory in the Byzantine period: archaeological data).

Valeria Lovato
Lecturer and research fellow at the University of Geneva.

Marielle Martiniani-Reber
Marielle Martiniani-Reber was born in Lyon, where she studied until completing her doctoral thesis at the University of Lyon II on medieval silk fabrics from the Middle East at the Musée des tissus de Lyon (Lyon Fabric Museum). She taught as a lecturer at the University of Lyon II and then as a senior assistant at the University of Lausanne. She is responsible for researching the textiles in the collections of the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire in Geneva and has been appointed chief curator of the applied arts department of the same museum. She has contributed scientifically to several exhibitions in various museums, including the Louvre.
She has published over a hundred articles and books on Byzantine art and textile art. Since her retirement, she has continued her work on textile projects in both Greece and France.