Prof. Dr Lucrețiu Bîrliba (“Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iaşi), the project director, has not only led two major projects in the field of acculturation and Romanization (see section C2), and his expertise is adequate for a project developed around the scientific exploration of the interaction of Roman culture and contemporary regional identities.

Prof. Dr Ioan Piso (Center of Roman Studies, “Babeş-Bolyai” University Cluj-Napoca) is a highly internationally appreciated epigraphist, with vastexpertise in any epigraphic investigation,and in prosopographic analysis and in the study of religion transfer through tradesmen and militaries.

Dr. Florian Matei-Popescu (Institute of Archaeology, Bucharest) is a scholar whose works especially in Roman army studies granted him international appreciation. His expertise will be useful in analyzing the link between military presence and the activities of civilians in Dacia and Moesia Inferior.

Assoc. Prof. Marius Alexianu (“Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iaşi) has achieved notable results in the analysis of bilingual inscriptions from south-eastern Europe (La situation linguistique de la province romaine Scythie Mineure. Repères d’une recherche, in Atti del convegno italo-romeno, Bari 2004, Les inscriptions bilingues privés de Tomi et de Histria in: V. Cojocaru (ed.), Ethnic Contacts and Cultural Exchanges North and West of the Black Sea from the Greek Colonization to the Ottoman Conquest, Iaşi, 2005, 305–312). His expertise will be useful in observing the linguistic contacts between Romans and natives in Moesia inferior and his philological formation will be useful in analysis of literary texts.

Dr. Rada Varga (Center of Roman Studies, “Babeş-Bolyai” University Cluj-Napoca) is a young researcher whose research is focused on population studies. Her PhD thesis (Peregrini in Roman Dacia, Cluj-Napoca 2014), as well her research project Romans 1 by 1, recommend her to assume the task of analyze the occupations of the Dacian and Moesian limes’ inhabitants.

Dr. Iulia Dumitrache (“Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iaşi) dedicated her PhD thesis on the literary, epigraphic and papyrologic sources on garum and salsamenta (Garum şi salsamenta în lumea romană. Surse literare, epigrafice şi papirologice, Iaşi 2014), and part of her work was also dedicated to the merchants in the Roman world. She is prepared to assume the task of interpreting the historical data concerning the merchants’ mobility in Moesia inferior.

Dr. Roxana Gabriela-Curcă (“Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iaşi) has published her PhD thesis on the bilingualism and the ethnic interferences in the Roman province Moesia inferior (Elenism şi romanitate în Moesia inferior. Interferențe etnice şi lingvistice, Iaşi 2011). Her scientific approach makes use of linguistic tools in order to observe the interferences between natives and Roman colonists in the Lower Danube province. In the project, she will study not only the way the military has an influence on the language particularities of Moesia inferior, but also the onomastic interferences at the epigraphic level in this province.

Dr. Sever-Petru Boţan (Institute of Archaeology Iaşi) will have the role of achieving the database on the relevant archaeological evidence at the Dacian and Moesian limes, illustrating the exchanges between different provinces of the Empire and the exchanges between the Roman Empire and Barbaricum. His PhD thesis (Vase de sticlă în spaţiul dintre Carpaţi şi Prut (secolele II a. Chr. – II p. Chr.), as well his studies on exchanges between Rome and Barbaricum recommend him for this task.

Dr. Valentin Piftor (“Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iaşi) focused his research on demographic studies (e. g. L’espérance de vie et la structures d’âge de la population féminine en Mésie Inférieure (Ier-IIIe s. ap. J.-C., Studia Antiqua et Archaeologica 13-14, 2008, 135-145). He will study the militaries’ and veterans’ family structures at the limes cities of Dacia and Moesia Inferior, in order to contribute at the analysis of the recruitment policy for these provinces.

PhD candidate Ana Odochiciuc (“Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iaşi) has achieved a BA and a MA degree with studies about slaves in Roman Dacia and her PhD topic (under the supervision of Lucreţiu Bîrliba) is about public and private initiative in the edilitary phenomenon of Dacia and Moesia Inferior.

PhD candidate Anamária-Izabella Pászint (“Babeş-Bolyai” University Cluj-Napoca) focuses her work (under Prof. I. Piso’s supervision) on the associations in the Greek cities at the Black Sea (hellenistic and early Roman period).