Lead Organisers
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University of Melbourne, Australia
Duane Hamacher
Duane Hamacher is Associate Professor and Director of the Cultural & Indigenous Astronomy Program at the University of Melbourne, Vice-President and President-Elect of ISAAC and President/Founder of AAAC.
Symposium Chair
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Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, USA
Jarita Holbrook
Jarita Holbrook is an SAO Visiting Scientist at the CfA, an Honorary Fellow in Science, Technology & Innovation Studies at the University of Edinburgh, and the President of ISAAC.
Scientific Organising Committee Chair
University of Melbourne, Australia
Gerhard Wiesenfeldt
Gerhard Wiesenfeldt is a Lecturer in the History & Philosophy of Science and Deputy Director of the Cultural Astronomy Program at the University of Melbourne.
Local Organising Committee Chair
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Scientific Organising Committee
University of Kent, UK
Efrosyni Boutsikas
Dr Efrosyni Boutsikas is a Senior Lecturer, classical archaeologist with research interests in Greek religion, ritual experience, monumental architecture, mythology and astronomy (archaeoastronomy).
Western Sydney University, Australia
Robert Fuller
Robert (Bob) Fuller is an Adjunct Fellow at WSU specialising in Australian cultural astronomy, with research on star maps, Kamilaroi astronomy, and the astronomy of Saltwater Aboriginal people of coastal New South Wales.​
INCIPIT, Spain
César González-García
A. César Gonzalez-Garcia is a Senior Researcher at Spanish National Research Council focusing on astronomical orientations of classical cultures and megaliths and is President of the European Society for Astronomy in Culture (SEAC).​
Flinders University, Australia
Alice Gorman
Alice Gorman is an Associate Professor of Space Archaeology at Flinders University, focusing on the archaeology and heritage of space exploration, space junk, planetary landing sites, off-earth mining, and space habitats.
University of Oklahoma, USA
Steve Gullberg
Steve Gullberg is a Professor of Cultural Astronomy at the University of Oklahoma, focusing on astronomical alignments on Inca huacas at times of solstice, and is President of IAU Commission C5 on Cultural Astronomy.
INCIPIT, Spain
Gail Higginbottom
Gail Higginbottom is a Marie Curie Research Fellow at INCIPIT in Spain, with a focus on archaeoastronomy and landscape archaeology, as well as a Visiting Research Fellow at the Australian National University.
Native Skywatchers, USA
Annette Lee
Annette S. Lee is a Lakota woman of the Wanbli Luta (Red Eagle) family, an astrophysicist and professional artist, director of Native Skywatchers, and Adjunct Professor at the University of California-Santa Cruz and the University of Southern Queensland.
Melbourne Planetarium, Australia
Tanya Hill
Tanya Hill is the Senior Curator of Astronomy for the Melbourne Planetarium at ScienceWorks and was part of the team that opened the planetarium in 1999, having created award-winning planetarium shows screened worldwide.
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National Autonomous University of Honduras
Javier Mejuto
Javier Mejuto is a Basque astronomer, Professor of Archaeoastronomy and Dean of the Space Sciences Faculty at National Autonomous University of Honduras, and President of the IAU National Astronomy Commission (Honduras).
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University of La Serena, Chile
Ricardo Moyano
Ricardo Moyano is an archaeoastronomer at the University of La Serena in Chile.
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Australia Telescope National Facility, Australia
Ray Norris
Ray Norris is an astrophysicist and science communicator at the CSIRO Australia Telescope National Facility and Western Sydney University, conducting research in astrophysics and Aboriginal Astronomy.
Türr István Museum, Hungary
Emilia Pasztor
Emilia Pasztor is an archaeologist specializing in late Prehistoric Europe working as an expert for Museums János Thorma and Istvan Turr. Her main research focuses on prehistoric sky lore and cosmological notions.
University of Leicester, UK
Clive Ruggles
Clive Ruggles is Emeritus Professor of Archaeoastronomy in the School of Archaeology & Ancient History at the University of Leicester, a founding member of ISAAC, and editor of the Springer Handbook of Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy.
VRVis, Austria
Georg Zotti
Georg Zotti is a computer scientist and astronomer with interests in history astronomical instruments, cultural astronomy, and GIS-based methods and virtual reconstructions, and is a co-developer for Stellarium.​
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Parkes Observatory, Australia
Stacy Mader
Stacy Mader is a Senior Experimental Scientist and radio astronomer at the Parkes Observatory, CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science. He is also a Gidja man from Western Australia and the first Aboriginal person to obtain a PhD in astrophysics.
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