Ongoing:

2024-2028
Cost Action MAIA (CA23141) - Managing Artificial Intelligence in Archaeology - funded by the European Union and the Cost Association. Contact person: Prof. Dr. Eleftheria Paliou (Management Commitee member for Germany, WG3)

2023-2025
FAIR.rdm: Data management as a basis for meaningful and fair use of archaeological data  - funded by the DFG. Contact person: Prof. Dr. Eleftheria Paliou

2022-2025
Meet and greet: Squares in Secondary Agglomerations of the North-western Roman Provinces - funded by the DFG, funding scheme "Weave Lead Agency Initiative". PIs:Prof. Dr. Eleftheria Paliou (Computational Archaeology), Prof. Dr. Eckhard Deschler-Erb (Archaeology of the Roman Provinces), Prof. Dr. Sabine Deschler-Erb (Basel-CH; Archaeological Science).

Major completed projects:

2021-2025
Modellierung prähistorischen Jagdverhaltens: Erweiterung der Jäger-Sammler Archäologie durch indigene Experten  – funded by BMBF, funding scheme „Förderung von Forschungs- und Entwicklungsvorhaben zur theoretischen, methodischen und technischen Weiterentwicklung der digitalen Geisteswissenschaften“. PIs: Prof. Dr. Eleftheria Paliou (Computational Archaeology), Dr. Tilman Lenssen-Erz (Prehistoric Archaeology)

2019-2024
Indigenous Knowledge and Archaeoinformatics - Exploring forager mobility in an archaeological landscape
(funded by VolkswagenStiftung, "Off the beaten track" funding program, PIs: Prof. Dr. Eleftheria Paliou, Dr. Tilman Lenssen-Erz, Visit Project Webpage and Project Website (in English and German)

2016-2021
Cost Action Arkwork
(funded by the EU framework program Horizon 2020 and the Cost Association), Working Group 4 Leader: Prof Dr. Eleftheria Paliou, Visit Project Webpage)

2018-2020
Simulating long term settlement evolution using a flow-balanced spatial interaction model: the case study of the Pontine region (Central Italy) from the Archaic to mid Imperial period (c. 600 B.C. – A.D. 250)
– in collaboration with Dr. Tymon de Haas (in the framework of the Research Training Group 1878, Archaeology of Pre-modern economies, Visit Project Webpage) 

2012-2016
Pathways, settlement patterns and geopolitical organisation in Bronze Age Crete
(funded by the Humboldt foundation, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and EU Marie Curie Actions, PI: Dr. Eleftheria Paliou).

2011-2012
Geospatial data integration, visualisation and analysis at the Roman site of Ammaia (Marvao Portugal).
(in the framework of the project “Radiography of the Past" ; funded by EU Marie Curie Actions, FP7-PEOPLE-IAPP)

2009-2010
Mapping the senses: perceptual and social aspects of Late Antique liturgy in San Vitale, Ravenna.
(funded by the TOPOI Excellence Cluster, Free University Berlin, PI: Dr. Eleftheria Paliou)

2004-2008
"The visual consumption of mural painting in Late Bronze Age Akrotiri (Thera, Greece) - A computational approach to visibility analysis in three-dimensional built spaces"
(funded by IKY, the Greek State Scholarship foundation, PI: Eleftheria Paliou)

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

At the University of Cologne:

• Board member of the Cologne Centre for eHumanties (CCeH, http://cceh.uni-koeln.de/mitglieder-des-cceh/)
• CDS (Center of Data and Simulation Science) member (core scientist), http://cds.uni-koeln.de/en/people/core-scientists
• Member of Competence Area III: Quantitative Modelling of Complex Systems (Universität zu Köln), https://complexsystems.uni-koeln.de/people
• Member of the board of Directors at the Data Center for the Humanities, 

International scientific committee memberships:

• Member of the Scientific Committee of the international organisation Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA), 2016 - 2021.
• Member of the international Scientific Committee of the Virtual Heritage Network, Ireland, 2015-2018.

International editorial board memberships (journals):

• Member of the Editorial Board of the international Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology (since 2016), https://journal.caa-international.org/about/editorialteam/
• Member of the Editorial Team of the international Journal of Open Archaeology Data (since 2019), https://openarchaeologydata.metajnl.com/about/editorialteam/
• Review editor and member of the Editorial Board of the open access journal Frontiers in Digital Humanities, section Digital Archaeology (2014-2019)
• Member of the Editorial Advisory Board on computer applications in archaeology of the Journal AURA, since 2017, http://aura.arch.uoa.gr/editorial-team.html

Other memberships:

• Member of the Management Committee for Germany, member of WG3
• Management Committee member (representing Germany) and working group leader (WG 4) at COST ACTION Arkwork: “Archaeological practices and knowledge work in the digital environment”, 2016-2020, http://www.cost.eu/COST_Actions/ca/CA15201
• Invited member of the expert Advisory Group (Thematic Area 1: Definitions) in the ViMM project  (Virtual Multimodal Museum Project; funded by Horizon 2020), 2018.
• Deputy Chair and founding member of CAA GR (Computer applications and Quantitative methods in Archaeology- Greek Chapter), 2012-2018.
• Member of the International CAA organisation (Computer applications and Quantitative methods in Archaeology), since 2006
• Member of CAA Germany, since 2009
• Member of CAA UK, 2004-2009
• Invited AcademiaNet Member (Leading Women Scientists), since 2017, http://www.academia-net.org/
• Member of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA), https://www.e-a-a.org/, 2015
• Member of Aegeus (Society of Aegean prehistory, 2009-2014).
• Member of the Archaeological Computing Research Group (ACRG, University of Southampton, 2005-2009).

Other activities:

• External examiner at the international “MSc Computational Archaeology: GIS, Data Science and Complexity” at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, UK

Books and special journal issues

• Paliou, E., Angourakis, A., Ullah, I. (2025), Special Issue “Advances in Modelling Past Human Ecosystems”, Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology https://journal.caa-international.org/special-collections
• Paliou, E., Papadopoulos, C., Huggett, J., Huvilla, I. (2021), Special Issue “Digital Scholarship in Archaeology”, Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology, https://journal.caa-international.org/collections/digital-scholarship-in-archaeology
• Paliou, E., Lieberwirth, U, & Polla, S. (eds)- (2014). “Spatial analysis and social spaces: interdisciplinary approaches to the interpretation of prehistoric and historic built environments”, Topoi. Berlin Studies of the Ancient World, De Gruyter (peer reviewed).
• Paliou, E. (2009), "The visual consumption of mural painting in Late Bronze Age Akrotiri (Thera, Greece)- A computational approach to visibility analysis in three-dimensional built spaces",  PhD thesis, University of Southampton, Southampton. (unpublished).
• C. Papadopoulos, E. Paliou, A. Chrysanthi, E. Kotoula, A. Sarris,. A (eds) (2015). Archaeological Research in the Digital Age. Proceedings of the 1st CAA GR conference, Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology, Greek chapter (CAA GR 2014), 7-8 March 2014, Institute of Mediterranean Studies, Rethymno, Crete (peer-reviewed).

Journal articles and book chapters

• Evans, T., Paliou, E., Rivers, R. (2023), “Gravity and Maximum Entropy Models”, in Brughmans, T., Mills, B.J., Munson, J. & Matthew A. Peeples (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Archaeological Network Research, Oxford University Press.
• Brughmans, T, Hanson, JW, Mandich, MJ, Romanowska, I, Rubio-Campillo, X, Carrignon, S, Collins-Elliott, S, Crawford, K, Daems, D, Fulminante, F, de Haas, T, Kelly, P, del Carmen Moreno Escobar, M, Paliou, E, Prignano, L and Ritondale, M. 2019. Formal Modelling Approaches to Complexity Science in Roman Studies: A Manifesto. Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal, 2(1): 4, pp. 1–19. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/traj.367.
• Paliou, E., Bevan, A. 2017 “Computational approaches to Minoan settlement interaction and growth” in Minoan architecture and urbanism: new perspectives on an ancient built environment, Oxford University Press, pp 266-288.
• Paliou, E. 2017: Visual perception in past built environments: theoretical and procedural issues in the archaeological application of three-dimensional visibility analysis, in Digital Geoarchaeology: New Techniques for Interdisciplinary Human Environment Research, edited by Christoph Siart and Markus Forbriger (Springer), pp. 65-80.
• Paliou, E., Bevan, A. (2016) Evolving settlement patterns, spatial interaction and the socio-political organisation of late Prepalatial south-central Crete, Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, Volume 42, June 2016, Pages 184–197, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0278416516300071
• Corsi, C.,  Sanders, D., Paliou, E., Gay, E. (2015): "Old problems and new challenges in archaeological sites data management. The REVEAL experience at Ammaia (Portugal)", in Proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology, Perth, 25-28 March 2013 (peer-reviewed).
• Paliou, E. (2014) "Introduction", in Spatial analysis and social spaces: interdisciplinary approaches to the interpretation of prehistoric and historical built environments, Paliou, E., Lieberwirth, U., Polla, S. (eds), Topoi. Berlin Studies of the Ancient World, De Gruyter. pp. 1-17.
• Paliou, E. (2014) "Visibility analysis in 3D spaces: a new dimension to the understanding of social space", in Spatial analysis and social spaces: interdisciplinary approaches to the interpretation of prehistoric and historical built environments, Paliou, E., Lieberwirth, U., Polla, S. (eds) Topoi. Berlin Studies of the Ancient World, De Gruyter, pp. 91-113.
• Paliou, E., Corsi, C. (2014) "“The whole is more than the sum of its parts”- Geospatial data integration, visualisation and analysis at the Roman site of Ammaia (Marvão, Portugal)", in Proceedings of Annual International Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology, Southampton, 26-29 March 2012. pp. 592-607.
• Paliou. E., (2013). "Reconsidering the concept of visualscapes: Recent advances in three-dimensional visibility analysis" in Computational Approaches to Archaeological Spaces, Bevan, A. and Lake M. (eds). Walnut Creek: Left Coast Press. pp. 243-264.
• Paliou, E. and D.J. Knight (2013). "Mapping the senses: Perceptual and Social aspects of Late Antique Liturgy in San Vitale, Ravenna", in Proceedings f CAA 2010, Computer Applications and Quantitative methods in Archaeology, International Conference, Granada 6-9 April, 2010. pp. 229-236.
• Paliou, E. (2012) "Digital data management and integration at Ammaia" in AMMAIA I. A Romano-Lusitanian townscape, Vermeulen F. and Cristina Corsi, C. (eds). Arcaeological Reports Ghent University, pp. 121-126.
• Mayoral, V., Martínez del Pozo, J., Paliou, E., Tovar, E., (2012) "Building a topographical model for the Roman town of Ammaia" in AMMAIA I. A Romano-Lusitanian townscape, Vermeulen F. and Cristina Corsi, C. (eds).  Arcaeological Reports Ghent University, pp.31-36.
• Paliou, E. (2011), The communicative potential of Theran murals in Late Bronze Age Akotiri: applying viewshed analysis in 3D townscapes. Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 30(3): 247–272.
• Paliou, E., Wheatley, D., Earl, G. P., (2011), Three-dimensional visibility analysis of architectural spaces: iconography and visibility of the wall paintings of Xeste 3 (Late Bronze Age Akrotiri) . Journal of Archaeological Science. 38:375-386.
• Paliou, E. (2008), "An autonomous agent approach to the investigation of intra-site movement and visibility: The visual consumption of Theran Murals from the public spaces of LBA Akrotiri, Thera,Greece" in Proceedings of the Annual International conference of Computer applications and quantitative methods in Archaeology, CAA 2007, Berlin, 2-6, April 2007. A. Posluschny,  K. Lambers , I. Herzog (eds). pp. 328-335.
• Paliou, E. and Wheatley, D. (2007), "Integrating spatial analysis and 3D modelling approaches to the study of visual space: Late Bronze Age Akrotiri" in “The world is in your eyes”: CAA 2005: Proceedings of the Annual Conference of Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology, Tomar, March 2005. A. Figueiredo , G. Leite Velho (eds), p. 307-312.