Sarah Fiddyment is a biochemist specialising in the proteomic analysis of parchment to help understand the methods of production and history of use of manuscripts. She is currently a British Academy Postdoctoral research fellow at the University of York.

Matthew Teasdale is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie research fellow at the University of York, where he studies how sequencing the DNA from parchment manuscripts can help to understand the genetic history of domestic animals.