Julian Di Giovanni is an economist with interest in international economics and macroeconomics. His research focuses on studying how different forms of cross-country integration impact domestic economic outcomes. His recent work focuses on understanding how the international integration of firms can impact macroeconomic volatility and the synchronization of business cycles across countries. This research is a mix of applied theory and empirics, with a focus on exploiting big data sets at the firm level. 

Matthias M. Tischler is a historian with interest in comparative transcultural research on religious and historical traditions, and on the plural religious and scholastic cultures and their effects on medieval and modern Europe’s various identities. His recent work deals with the role of Carolingian culture in processes of identity building in the peripheries of post-Carolingian Europe, on the interrelationship between the medieval edition of biblical manuscripts and historical writing in transcultural societies, and on the transfer and transformation of scholasticism in the European centres and peripheries of learning. His research aims at the development of a new master narrative of counteracting collective religious memories in transcultural medieval Europe and beyond, in order to sensitize our present times to Europe‘s social, religious and cultural plurality in a global world order.