Michaël Peyrot er post-doc ved Leiden Universitet hvor han forsker i Tokharisk og Indo-Europæisk lingvistik.
Georges-Jean Pinault er studieleder ved École Pratique des Hautes Études.
Tocharian and Indo-European Studies (TIES) publishes central topics on the two closely related languages Tocharian A and B, attested in Central Asian Buddhist manuscripts dating from the second half of the first millennium AD. It focuses on philological and linguistic aspects of Tocharian, and its relation with the other Indo-European languages.