Project participants

Prof. Dr. Annette Haug

Chair of Classical Archaeology at the Christian-Albrechts- University of Kiel
She heads the CAU's Collection of Classical Antiquities, is Principal Investigator of the ERC Advanced Grant FRAGILE IMAGES, co-director of the research building ARCWorlds, spokesperson of the Urban Roots subcluster of the Roots Cluster of Excellence and board member of the research program SECC. She is an ordinary member of the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg.

Prof. Dr. Annette Haug's research focuses on the following areas:

• Ancient urbanism
• Visual Studies: FRAGILE IMAGES
• Decor principles in late republican and early imperial Italy
• Atmospheres and emotional spaces

Further information is available at: https://www.uni-kiel.de/de/person/haug-annette-69090
Contact: ahaug@klassarch.uni-kiel.de

Dr. Ulrike Peter

Numismatist at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
She heads the Corpus Nummorum and the Imagines Nummorum research group.

Dr. Ulrike Peter's research focuses on the following areas:

• Ancient numismatics, especially of the Balkan and Black Sea region
• Reception history of ancient numismatics
• Application of digital methods

Further information is available at: https://bbaw.academia.edu/UlrikePeter
Contact: peter@bbaw.de

Prof. Dr. Bernhard Weisser

Director of the Coin Cabinet of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Chairman of the Numismatic Commission of the Federal States in the Federal Republic of Germany
Head of the Interactive Catalog of the Coin Cabinet
Co-applicant and co-speaker for Task Area 2 of NFDI4objects

Prof. Dr. Bernhard Weisser's research focuses on the following areas:

• Ancient numismatics, especially of north-western Asia Minor
• Digital transformation of numismatics in museums and collections, especially ikmk.net
• Medal art from 1871

Further information is available at:
https://smb.academia.edu/BernhardWeisser
Contact: b.weisser@smb.spk-berlin.de

Claus Franke

Claus Franke studied political science and history with a focus on the early modern period in Hannover. After completing his studies, he worked as a concept developer at Heise Zeitschriften Verlag and was also a freelance web developer. Since 2013, he has been working as a concept and web developer at Leibniz Universität Hannover for the Faculty of Science and Philosophy.
In February 2020, he also took up a position at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW), where he works as a research assistant in the TELOTA - Digital Humanities department. There he initially took over the technical support of the Corpus Nummorum project and has also been responsible for the technical support of Imagines Nummorum since 2025.

Contact: franke@bbaw.de

Jan Köster

Jan Köster studied Classical Archaeology, Ancient History and Classical Philology at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg. From 2016 to 2019 he worked as a research assistant for IT at the Istanbul Department of the German Archaeological Institute. Since 2020, he has been working at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities as a research assistant and research software engineer in the field of digital humanities. In addition to the Imagines Nummorum project, he also maintains the Corpus Nummorum and other primarily ancient world projects.

Contact: jan.koester@bbaw.de

Paul Seyfried

Paul Seyfried earned his Master's degree in Classics from Freiburg University, Germany, in 2024. From 2024 to 2025, he worked at the Münzkabinett Berlin, where he prepared his PhD project on the coinage of Lampsacus (6th century B.C. – 3rd century A.D.). Since March 2025, he has been a research assistant at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, contributing to the "Imagines Nummorum" project.

Contact: paul.seyfried@bbaw.de

PD Dr. Vladimir Stolba

Vladimir Stolba studied Ancient History and Classical Archaeology at St Petersburg University, earning his PhD from the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1991 and his Dr.habil. from Aarhus University in 2014. In 1995-97, he was awarded the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship in Munich, and in 2000-2001, he was a senior fellow at the Danish Institute for Advanced Studies in Copenhagen. A member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters since 2009, his primary research areas include monetary history and finances of the Greco-Roman world, landscape and settlement archaeology, Greek epigraphy and onomastics, as well as environmental archaeology and paleoclimate. His research has a specific focus on the Black Sea region, Thrace and north-western Asia Minor.

Contact: vladimir.stolba@bbaw.de