Sabine Ladstatter was born in Klagenfurt in 1968. She studied archaeology and Altertumskunde in Graz, Vienna and Ljubljana. In 2009 Ladstatter became head of the Austrian Archeological Institute (OeAI) in Vienna and has led the excavations in Ephesos since 2010. In 2012 she was voted Austrian Scientist of the Year 2011 by the club of Austrian journalists specialising in education and science. Lois Lammerhuber has been voted world-best photographer three times and won awards for almost all of his books. His perception of photography has strongly been marked by the close cooperation with GEO magazine. He is a member of the New York Art Directors Club. In 2012 the Photographische Gesellschaft Wien honoured him with the Golden Society Medal for special photographic expertise.