Elfriede Iby focuses on the research of the history of Schönbrunn Palace and its interiors. Since 1997 she is head of the Department of Research and Documentation of the Schloss Schönbrunn Kultur- und Betriebsges.m.b.H. She is co-responsible for the preservation and preventive conservation of the building structure and responsible curator of the historical interior decoration of the Palace and the Imperial Apartments.

Gabriela Krist has been university professor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Institute of Conservation, since 1999. She studied conservation at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, as well as art history and archaeology in Vienna and Salzburg. For many years she worked for ICCROM in Rome and at the Austrian Federal Office for the Care of Monuments (Bundesdenkmalamt).