Curriculum Vitae
Current Affiliations
2022-present | Associate Professor in Archaeological Sciences | Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
2021-present | Research Associate / Group Leader | Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology, Jena, Germany
2017-present | Research Associate | RLAHA, School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, U.K.
Previous Positions
2021-2022 | Tenure-track Professor in Archaeological Sciences | Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
2017-2021 | W2 Research Group Leader | Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology (previously Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History), Jena, Germany
2013- 2017 | Postdoctoral Researcher | “PalaeoChron” (Precision Dating of the Palaeolithic of Eurasia). European Research Council Advanced Grant (PI: Tom Higham), ERC-2012-AdG–324139. RLAHA | Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art (RLAHA), School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, U.K.
2014-2018 | William Golding Junior Research Fellow | Brasenose College, University of Oxford, U.K.
2011-2013 | Postdoctoral Researcher | “AHOB3” (Ancient Human Occupation of Britain 3) project, Leverhulme Trust, RLAHA, School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, U.K.
2011-2014 | Junior Research Fellow & “Fellows’ Fellow” | Linacre College, University of Oxford, U.K.
2005 | Museum conservator | National Archaeological Museum, Madrid, Spain.
2004 | Field archaeological conservator | Kephalonia, Ministry of Culture, Greece
2020 | Maternity leave (12-month career break)
2016 | Maternity leave (12-month career break)
Education
2006–2011 | D.Phil. in Archaeological Science (University of Oxford, U.K.) | Thesis title: Investigating the Chronology of the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic Transition in Mediterranean Europe by Improved Radiocarbon Dating of Shell Ornaments. Supervisor: Prof. R.E.M. Hedges
2005–2006 | M.Sc. in Archaeological Science (University of Oxford, U.K.) | Dissertation title: Seasonality of Neanderthal Occupation at Vanguard Cave, Gibraltar.
1999-2004 | B.Sc. in Archaeological Conservation (Technological University of Athens, Greece)
Student supervision
2019-present | PhD supervisor: Naihui Wang (Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology & University of Tübingen)
2022 - 2023 | MSc supervisor : Theresa Bloß (University of Vienna)
2022 - 2023 | MSc supervisor: Lidia Martin (University of Vienna)
2020-2021 | MSc co-supervisor: Dawn Lewis (University of Oxford)
2020-2021 | MSc co-supervisor: Rebecca Scott (University of Oxford)
2020-2021 | MSc co-supervisor: Maxine McCarty (University of Oxford)
2017-2021 | PhD supervisor: Samantha Brown (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History & University of Tübingen)
2018-2019 | MSc co-supervisor: Mar Crego Walters (University of Oxford)
2016-2020 | PhD co-supervisor: Lorena Becerra-Valdivia (University of Oxford)
2014-2015 | MSc co-supervisor: Lorena Becerra-Valdivia (University of Oxford)
2014-2015 | MSc co-supervisor: Samantha Brown (University of Oxford)
2011-2014 | Linacre College graduate student advisor (12 students)
Teaching
2021- present | Undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, Biology and Evolutionary Anthropology degrees (University of Vienna)
2020- present | Masters course, Palaeoproteomics and Radiocarbon dating (Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany)
2018-2019 | Masters course, Bioarchaeology (ZooMS) component (University of Oxford)
2009-2012 | Undergraduate and postgraduate tutor, University of Oxford. Modules taught: Science-based Archaeology, Dating methods.
2008-2009 | Part-time tutor for the Oxford Programme for Undergraduate Studies (OPUS) (University of Oxford) Modules taught: Palaeolithic Archaeology, Modern Human Origins.
Grants, Awards, Scholarships
2017-2024 | European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant “FINDER”. €1,999,200
2014-2015 | Evans Fund Award, Cambridge University, U.K. £2,500
2013 | 15th Tübingen Prize on Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology for doctoral research. Award €5,000
2012-2013 | British School at Athens, Early Career Fellowship. Residential fellowship.
2012 | John Fell Fund, University of Oxford. £7,200
2009 | NRCF (NERC-AHRC) grant for 29 radiocarbon dates (with Snape et al.). £10,000
2008-2010 | A.G. Leventis Foundation, postgraduate scholarship. £10,000
2008 | NRCF (NERC-AHRC) grant for 55 radiocarbon dates (with Hedges). £18,900
2005-2008 | Greek Scholarships Foundation (IKY) – Examination-awarded Master & PhD studentship. £40,000
2006-2008 | Edward Hall Memorial scholarship. £3,000
2006-2009 | Keble College Association Travel grants. £3,000
2005 | Leonardo Da Vinci Intra-European Mobility Fellowship, European Union
2003-2004 | St. Catherine’s Monastery, Sinai, Egypt. 3-month residential fellowship.
Organization of scientific meetings
Ancient Proteins @20. “Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry” workshop. August 2018, Copenhagen, Denmark. Co-organizer.
Wenner-Gren Foundation Major Symposium “Human Colonization of Asia in the Late Pleistocene“, 18-24 March 2016, Sintra, Portugal. Co-Organizer, with Profs M. Petraglia and C. Bae.
15th International Conference of the European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists (EurASEAA). 6 -10 July 2015. Université Paris Ouest, Paris, France. Session organizer.
XVII Congress of the International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (UISPP). 1-7 September 2014. Burgos, Spain. Session organizer.
Member of the Scientific Committee of the 21st International Radiocarbon Conference, 9-13 July 2012. Paris, France. Session organizer.
“Time for the Palaeolithic”, 14-16 April 2011. University of Oxford, U.K. Co-Organizer.
Service to the community
Regular peer reviewer for Nature, Science, PNAS, Science Reports, Antiquity, Journal of Human Evolution, Quaternary International, Geology, Quaternary Science Reviews, Radiocarbon, PLoS One etc
Assistant editor for PNAS
Grants proposal evaluator for the European Research Council, the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action, the Leakey Foundation
Media and public outreach. Interviews with the New York Times, The Guardian, The Atlantic, Scientific American, Nature News, British Council, Natural Environment Research Council, SAPIENS, BBC World News, British Archaeology, Current Archaeology.