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María Jesús Albarrán Martínez obtained her PhD in Ancient History at the Universidad de Alcalá (UAH) with the doctoral dissertation Ascetismo Femenino en Egipto según la Documentación Papirològica. From 2002 to 2006 she worked at the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum II (Centre CIL II, UAH). She trained as a coptologist and as a papyrologist in several courses in Spain (Madrid and Barcelona) and abroad (Cairo, Leipzig). Her main interests lay in the area of documentary papyrology and Christianism in Late Antiquity, on which she has published several works. She is currently preparing the volume Prosopographia Asceticarum Aegyptiarum, where she is paying special attention to papyrological sources.

Raquel Martín Hernández obtained her PhD in Classics at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM). Her research has focused on Greek religion and magic, and the texts of the Greek magical papyri. She has trained as a papyrologist through work carried out at the Abadia de Montserrat under the direction of Dr. Sofía Torallas Tovar and has followed papyrology courses at the Leiden Papyrological Institute and the Papyrological Summer School in Lecce. She is the curator of the papyrological collection formed by P. Bonaventura Ubach, housed at the Abadia de Montserrat, which she is currently cataloguing.

Alberto Nodar Domínguez eis lecturer in Classics at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, where he is also the director of a papyrology unit associated with the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC). Since 2005 he is the curator of the Palau-Ribes papyrological collection, now housed at the Arxiu Històric de la Companyia de Jesús a Catalunya. He obtained his DPhil in Greek Papyrology from the University of Oxford, where he subsequently worked on the project The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. He conducted research at the Institut für Papyrologie, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, as an Alexander von Humboldt scholar, and at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, whithin the Catalogue of Paraliterary Papyri Project.

María Victoria Spottorno Caro completed her studies in trilingual Biblical philology at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), after which she obtained her PhD at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM). Her doctoral dissertation on Ezekiel papyrus no. 956 and her work in 1975 at the University of Oxford under the direction of P. J. Parsons and J. Rea, prompted Prof. M. Fernández Galiano, who had deposited the Papyri Matritenses collection at the Fundación Pastor de Estudios Clásicos, to comission her the restoration of the collection. Since 2002 she has been restoring the papyrus collection at the Abadia de Montserrat. Her work as a researcher at the CSIC has focused on textual criticism of the Bible, in connection with which she has published several Biblical fragments and participated in the debate around Pqumram 7Q5. She is member of the executive committee of the International Organization for the Septuagint and Cognate Studies (IOSCS).

Sofía Torallas Tovar obtained her PhD in Classics at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM). She trained as a papyrologist and a coptologist at University College London (UCL). Since 2002 she is the curator of the Roca-Puig collection at the Abadia de Montserrat and directs the research conducted by the CSIC at the Abbey. She is co-author with Klaas A. Worp of To the Origins of Greek Stenography, Barcelona 2006, and author of Biblica Coptica Montserratensia, Barcelona 2007. She is currently preparing Hadrianus. P.Monts.Roca III with Prof. Juan Gil. She participates in international projects concerned with the edition of Coptic texts, such as those on Marc and Shenoute of Atripe. She participates in the Qubbet el Hawa (Assuan) Project of the University of Jaén since 2009.

Klaas A. Worp is emeritus professor of papyrology at the Papyrologisch Instituut of the University of Leiden. Among his numerous publications in the field of papyrology The Chronological Systems of Byzantine Egypt, Leiden, 2004, together with Prof. R. S. Bagnall, or Greek Ostraka from Kellis (O.Kellis) (= Dakhleh Oasis Project Monograph 13), Oxford, 2004, should be mentioned. He has been involved in the Roca-Puig fund project since its very beginning, and has co-authored To the Origins of Greek Stenography. P.Monts.Roca. I, Barcelona, 2004, with Sofía Torallas.

Amalia Zomeño Rodríguez is a staff researcher of the CSIC in Madrid since 2007. Since 2001 she has been working on the cataloguing, edition and study of the Arabic notarial documents kept at the Granada Archives, especially those at the Library of the University of Granada Royal Hospital, and is currently preparing a volume with the edition of an important number of unpublished documents. Since 2003 she has been cataloguing the Arabic manuscripts of the Oriental funds of the Abadia de Montserrat, and in 2006 she started the cataloguing and the study of the Arabic papyri belonging to the Palau-Ribes collection, housed at the Arxiu Históric de la Companyia de Jesús a Catalunya. She has participated in the International Summer School in Arabic Papyrology (National Library of Austria, 2007) and is a member of the International Society for Arabic Papyrology.