Cynthia Dunning Thierstein is Director of ArchaeoConcept and responsible for heritage management projects. She is an archaeologist, specialising in the Iron Age. She submitted her doctoral thesis in 2005 on the theme of the Early Iron Age in the Jura (University of Geneva). After her studies in Geneva and Marburg an der Lahn (Germany), she became assistant of Prehistory at the University of Geneva. From 1989 to 1998 she was director of the Schwab Museum in Biel and from 1998 to 2010 of the Archaeological Service of the Canton of Bern. Since her studies in the 1980s, Cynthia Dunning Thierstein has been interested in the theory of archaeology and its management. She set up a new organisation for the Archaeological Service in the Canton of Bern and developed this service to ensure efficient management of archaeology from the inventory to the mediation. Till 2011, Cynthia Dunning Thierstein was actively involved in the management of the Europae Archaeologiae Concilium, a non-governmental association bringing together archaeological managers from all over Europe, which organises colloquia and defines the issues of contemporary archaeology for this geographical region. In 2011, Cynthia Dunning Thierstein creates ArchaeoConcept. She is a member of numerous national and international associations (ICOMOS, ICOM, EAA, AS, AGUS, ARS). She was vice-president of the association Palafittes for the inscription of Pile dwellings around the Alps on the UNESCO World Heritage List and a member of the AS (Swiss Archaeology) committee until 2012. In 2012 she obtained her MAS in cultural management at the University of Basel. She is an ICOMOS-ICAHM expert.

Ellinor Dunning is working as an archaeologist since 2015. She obtained her MA in Archaeology at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland in 2016. In her thesis, rewarded by the Jéquier price, she explored the relationship between the institutions responsible of the transmission on prehistoric sites and their reception by the Swiss population.
Scientific collaborator and project coordinator for ArchaeoConcept since 2015, she is working mainly on the preparation of nomination files for the UNESCO World Heritage List for the Emirate of Sharjah (UAE), as well as on the participatory project Salons archéologiques. Conducted throughout Switzerland, this project aims to develop an integrated archaeology, based on the participants' perceptions of archaeology.
Since 2018, she is working at the University of Neuchâtel for the Emotions patrimoniales project, supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation. In the form of a temporary exhibition at the Laténium - parc et musée d’archéologie de Neuchâtel, this project aims to highlight the emotional links that unite the people to archaeological sites, through the medium of vernacular photography and the stories that the pictures reveal.
She defends a democratic production of knowledge and her main interest lies in the development of a social archaeology whose values are shared, and co-constructed.

After completing a BA degree in ethnology and human geography, Camille Aeschimann obtained a MA in social sciences with a specialization in anthropology of the public policies at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. During her MA, she focused on the tensions emerging in any social change projects driven by NGOs or associations and that involve groups with often distinct interests. In 2016, she had the opportunity to carry out a five-month ethnographic field in Uganda by integrating a local NGO. She studied the implementation of a participatory project about human rights in the context of the future oil exploitation and worked with rural communities in the western part of the country (Bunyoro). Today, she is working at ArchaeoConcept as an anthropologist and project collaborator for the Salons archéologiques project that aims to understand representations of the swiss population regarding archaeology and heritage. At the same time, she works for an association active in the field of mediation that raises awareness about expressions of religious and cultural diversity in Switzerland organizing thematic visits of cultural and historical sites for a large public.

Aurélia Basterrechea has been a scientific collaborator at ArchaeoConcept since May 2017. She holds a Master of Arts degree in Museum Studies and continues her studies by specializing in pre and protohistoric archaeology with a second Master's degree. Interested in the enhancement and transmission of heritage, in the summer of 2016 she wrote her first critical thesis questioning the enhancement of the archaeological heritage of Sion in Valais. At the same time, she is a member of the committee of the Association Valaisanne d'Archéologie and the Association des Jeunes Archéologues de Martigny, where she leads workshops and gives archaeology courses in primary classes in Valais. She has participated in several excavation campaigns in the canton of Vaud, Valais and Kerma in Sudan with the Swiss Archaeological Mission. Within ArchaeoConcept, she mainly manages the Sites of the Month project but also carries out research on popular science via digital platforms such as Youtube and social networks.

Aurelia is currently travelling around the world. She will resume her work in 2024.

Leana Catalfamo is a research collaborator at ArchaeoConcept since August 2022. A graduate archaeologist from the universities of Neuchâtel and Basel, she has been involved in various excavation campaigns since 2010, both in Switzerland (cantons of BE, FR, JU, NE and VS) and abroad. From the sands of Sudan to the dust of Greek Euboea, the many campaigns she has carried out abroad are also opportunities for her to discover new sensitivities to cultural heritage.

Between 2020 and 2022 she worked for the archaeological service of the canton of Bern, then for the canton of Valais. Curious about human history and convinced of the importance of high-quality scientific communication for a public less familiar with archaeology, she worked as a guide in the museum institutions of the Laténium (NE), then the New Museum of Biel (BE), Augusta Raurica (BL) and since 2023 at the Vindonissa/Windisch site (AG), as a cultural mediator. She joins the team of the archaeological service of the canton of Fribourg for the medieval sector in February 2024.

In summer 2022, she took over the project to promote the archaeological site of the so-called Hannibal Wall from Aurelia Basterrechea, who is away on a trip. Since February 2023, she is also involved in the project on universal accessibility of archaeological sites.