Aggeliki Simossi
Dr. Aggeliki Simossi, former Director of the Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities, initiated the "Return to Antikythera" research project, which she co-directs from 2021 to 2025 with Lorenz Baumer.
Archaeologist
Lorenz E. Baumer
Lorenz Baumer is professor of archaeology at the Geneva university.
He curated the exhibition "L'énigme Anticythère - un calculateur astronomique dans l'Antiquité" together with Yanis Bitsakis.
From 2021 to 2025, he co-directs the "Return to Antikythera" archaeological shipwreck project, together with Aggeliki Simossi.
Lazaros Kolonas
Lazaros Kolonas (in Greek: Λάζαρος Κολώνας) is honorary Director of Antiquities at the Hellenic Ministry of Culture. He supervised the Cousteau expedition in 1976, and, as Director of Antiquities, visited the Museum in 2005 while the new research was ongoing.
Nomiki Palaiokrassa
Nomiki Palaiokrassa (in Greek: Νομική Παλαιοκρασσά) works at the "Bronze Collection" of the National Archaeological Museum.
Polyxeni Bouyia
Polyxeni Bouyia (1960 - 2013, in Greek: Πολυξένη Μπούγια) was head of the Bronze Collection of the National Archaeological Museum, in charge of the Antikythera Mechanism. She was one of the key persons that lead to the successful exhibition on the Antikythera wreck.
Theotokis Theodoulou
Theotokis Theodoulou (in Greek, Θεοτόκης Θεοδούλου) is in charge of the new dive at the Antikythera wreck site (2012) from the Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities.
Brendan Foley
At the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, in charge of the "Return to Antikythera" wreck survey (from 2012 to 2016), a project of the Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities initiated by Aggeliki Simossi.
Antonios Oikonomos
Antonios Oinonomos (or Oikonomou, 1850-1902, in Greek: Αντώνιος Οικονόμος or Οικονόμου) was an archaeologist, professor at the University of Athens and member of the council of the Archaeological Society. As he was originating from the island of Symi, he was contacted by the local authorities and helped them in contacting the Greek government which organized the dive at the wreck site.
Mary Zafeiropoulou
Mary Zafeiropoulou († 2019) was a curator of antiquities in the Bronze Collection of the National Archaeological Museum, where she was dealing especially with the Antikythera Mechanism, discovering some new fragments. She studied history and archaeology at the National Kapodistrian University of Athens and also holded a degree in English Literature from the same university. She had a MA in Museum Studies from Leicester University and her dissertation was on “ The role and development of Archaeological Museums in Greece ”.
She has worked at the British, Birmingham and Leicestershire Museums and since 1973 in the Greek Archaeological Service conducting many excavations in Thasos, Seres, Athens and Eleusis. She has contributed to the writing of catalogues for exhibitions organized by the Greek Ministry of Culture, and to various publications.