Emil Hilton Saggau (1988), Ph.d. og researcher (postdoc) with primary research in the Eastern Orthodox Churches of South Eastern Europe. Saggau holds a Ph.D. from University of Copenhagen from 2020 with the title "Only Unity Will Save the Serbs - Eastern Orthodox Notion of History, Memory and Politic in former Yugoslavia" (2020). He has worked from 2010-2012 at the Center for Euorpean Islamic Thought.

Saggau do also look into byzantine-slavic church history, law and religion, cults and the Bektashi-Islam in South Eastern Europe - and in addition the popcultural use of religion. He has published a number of papers on these issues. A particular interest is in the Nordic Orthodox Churches, which he has published on - in a Danish context - in the book "De moderne ortodokse kirker" (2021).

Saggau is currently (2021-23) working on a book on the Slavic cults of Jovan Vladimir and these cults role in the formation of nation and churches on South Eastern Europe.