Michael Griffin is Associate Professor of Greek Philosophy at the University of British Columbia, and co-editor of the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle Project. He is author of Aristotle’s Categories in the Early Roman Empire (Oxford, 2015), and a two-volume translation of Olympiodorus’ lectures on the Alcibiades I, published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2014 and 2016.

Cagla Umsu-Seifert has studied Classics in Istanbul, Berlin and Munich. She completed her PhD in Greek Philology at LMU Munich in 2021 with a thesis on Olympiodorus’ Commentary on Alcibiades. She researches on late-antique philosophy and literature, with a focus on the reception of Plato and literary strategies in Neoplatonic commentaries. She currently works as a lecturer at the Department of Greek Philology at LMU Munich. She is also the author of several articles on Olympiodorus of Alexandria.

Elsa Giovanna Simonetti earned her joint PhD from the University of Padova and KU Leuven (2016), with a thesis on Plutarch of Chaeronea and philosophical accounts of mantic prophecy (A Perfect Medium? Oracular Divination in the Thought of Plutarch, Leuven University Press 2017). After joining Durham University as a British Academy Newton International Fellow (2017-2019), and KU Leuven as an FWO Post-Doctoral Fellow (2019-2022), she is now a member of the ERC AdG Project “Not another history of Platonism” (grant agreement No. 885273), directed by Prof. Jan Opsomer. Elsa has been a Visiting Scholar at OSU, the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, and the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris. Her research focuses on the interaction between philosophy and religion in the Early Roman Imperial Age.