CURRENT POSITION:
- W2 Professorship in Archaeoinformatics, Institute of Archaeology, University of Cologne
- Director of the Cologne Digital Archaeology Lab (CoDArchLab)
- Responsible for study programme: MA Archäologie - specialisation Archaeoinformatics (Studienrichtung Archäoinformatik)
- Responsible for study programme: MA Digital and Computational Archaeology.
PAST POST-DOCTORAL POSITIONS AND FELLOWSHIPS:
Oct 2014 – 2016
P.R.I.M.E. Research Fellow: research project supported by DAAD and co-funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and EU Marie Curie Actions. (12-month mobility grant and a 6-month reintegration grant). October 2014–March 2016.
Project title: "Spatial interactions and socio-political change in Bronze Age Crete: modelling the evolution of regional settlement hierarchies before and after the emergence of the Minoan Palaces (ca. 2300-1450 BC)".
Affiliations:
- October 2014 (Institute of Classical Archaeology, Heidelberg University, Germany
- November 2014 - October 2015 -Visiting Scholar at the Archaeological GIS lab (AGIS Lab), Institute of Archaeology, UCL, UK (P.R.I.M.E. scholarship).
- November 2015 - March 2016, Institute of Classical Archaeology, Heidelberg University, Germany.
Other affiliations:
- Research Associate at the LiDAR Research Group, GIScience, Institute of Geography, Heidelberg.
- GIS specialist at the Koumasa Archaeological project (Crete, Greece)
2012–2014
Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow, Institute of Classical Archaeology, University of Heidelberg, Germany. October 2012–September 2014.
Project Title: "Pathways, settlement patterns and geopolitical organisation in Protopalatial and Neopalatial Crete: a holistic landscape approach".
Other affiliations:
- Affiliate Academic at the Institute of Archaeology, UCL, UK (Archaeological GIS lab (AGIS lab), September 2013, January-February 2014), collaboration with Prof. Andrew Bevan.
- Research Associate at the LiDAR Research Group, GIScience, Institute of Geography, Heidelberg
2011–2012
Marie Curie Fellow (experienced researcher)/ Funding Scheme: FP7-PEOPLE-IAPP in the framework of the project “Radiography of the Past" (RADIO-PAST: integrated non-destructive approaches to understand and valorise complex archaeological sites.), University of Evora, Portugal.
2010
Senior Fellowship TOPOI Excellence Cluster, Free University, Berlin, Germany (granted for teaching and research), June 2010.
2009–2010
Junior Research Fellow, at the TOPOI Excellence Cluster, Free University, Berlin, “The transformation of space and knowledge in ancient civilisations”.
Project title: “Mapping the senses: Perceptual and Social aspects of Late Antique Liturgy in San Vitale, Ravenna".
EDUCATION:
2004-2008:
PhD research, School of Humanities, University of Southampton, UK (fully funded by IKY, Greek State Scholarship Foundation).
Thesis title:‘The visual consumption of mural painting in Late Bronze Age Akrotiri (Thera, Greece)- A computational approach to visibility analysis in three-dimensional built spaces’.
2001-2002:
MSc in Archaeological Information Systems (Grade: Distinction), Department of Archaeology, University of York, UK.
1996-2000:
BA Hons (Ptychion) in Archaeology and History of Art, University of Athens, Greece, Department of History and Archaeology