Lucrezia Milillo is a PhD student and Wolfson scholar at the University of St Andrews in the Social Anthropology department. She works on khipu technology with an interest in how meaning is produced in the making and in how Andeans used materials to convey meaning. She is the group leader of the Meaningful Materials in the Khipu code IPERION-HS project.

Marei Hacke is a conservation scientist at the Swedish National Heritage Board. Her areas of expertise include scientific investigations of cultural heritage and conservation methods with a focus on organic materials (textiles, paper, plastics, mordants and dyes) as well as the strategic development of heritage science in Sweden.

Sara Norrehed is a conservator scientist at the Swedish National Heritage Board. Her background is in organic chemistry, which she also combines with her mastery of photographic techniques. Her main focuses are organic materials, material emissions and chemical safety in museums.

Camila Alday Mamani is a Postdoctoral archaeobotanist at the University of Cambridge. She is an expert in reconstructing plant fibre production among early hunter-gatherers (10,000-3,500 BP) from the Peruvian and Chilean coasts. Her research involves the examination of macros and microscopy of plant fibre artefacts leading to the identification of wild-gathered plants from wetland environments, and cotton.

Sabine Hyland is an anthropologist and ethnohistorian of the Andes and a world-leading expert on khipu studies. Her research focuses on understanding indigenous South American systems of inscription, including both khipus and Andean pictographic script. Currently, she is a professor of World Religions at the University of St Andrews. She is currently supervising Lucrezia’s PhD research.