Committee

Committee ASEB/SGBS/SSSB 2026

Co-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.

Co-President: 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.

Treasury: Nikolas Hächler

Nikolas Hächler studied history, philosophy and political science at the University of Zurich, where he obtained his Master’s degree in 2012 and was awarded his PhD in 2017. From 2013 to 2019, he was a research assistant at the Department of History at the University of Zurich, and from 2019 to 2022 he was a visiting scholar at the universities of Vienna, Paris, Munich and Princeton with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. From 2022 to 2025, he contributed to the ERC project ‘The Just City’ at the Department of History at the University of Zurich. He completed his habilitation in 2024 at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Zurich.

Research interests:

  • Social, economic, intellectual and cultural history of Greco-Roman antiquity
  • Pagan philosophy and its reception in Christianity
  • Epigraphy and numismatics
  • Prosopography and network analysis
  • Historical anthropology
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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.

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 IXe et Xe 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 XIIe 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).

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