Last week, I attended the 53rd International Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA) in Vienna, Austria. The conference took place from 31 March to 4 April at the University of Vienna, right on the famous Ringstraße. It was a packed week – and a very good one. Presenting and organising I…
A few weeks ago, I announced that I would be organising the third Archaeogaming Hackathon. This time in Kiel. Well, time flies, and it is already over. As before, a more detailed report will be available on the DiKopA project website in the coming weeks. Today, I will give you a short summary of what…
A long-running project has finally seen the light of day. Forum Kritische Archäologie (FKA) just released our special issue “West Asia in the Center” in volume 14 (2025). I co-edited this issue with Aris Politopoulos, Bärbel Morstadt, and Aydin Abar. I also contributed an article of my own. What is it about? The central question…
I won an award. More specifically: the Teaching Award of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Cologne for 2025. The award is based on teaching evaluations from the past year, and I received particularly high ratings for my two courses “3D modelling and reconstruction in Archaeology” and “3D recording and documentation…
Recently, I had the pleasure of being interviewed for the Berliner Antike-Blog, a platform dedicated to research on the ancient world in the Berlin/Brandenburg region. The format – “10 Questions” – is a series I’ve enjoyed reading for years, so being asked to participate felt like a small milestone. Rather than simply reposting the interview…
I’m quite happy to announce that my latest article just came out in Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice. The piece is called “Archaeology and interdisciplinarity after the digital turn” and is part of a special issue on interdisciplinary approaches to history. What’s it about? The article explores how archaeology – and especially…
It’s always a good week when something you’ve worked on finally makes its way into the world. This week, I’m happy to share two new publications. Both of which I’ve been involved in (in different ways and at different stages of my academic life). One takes us to the markets of the Moroccan High Atlas….
I visited Prague for the first time last week, and I’m still a little in awe. I had expected beauty, of course. But I hadn’t expected the calm. The sense of safety. I hadn’t expected the romance of the cobbled streets and softly lit façades, or the comforting rhythm of a city that feels like…
I’m happy to announce that I’ll be co-organizing a session together with Aris Politopoulos at the upcoming Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA) 2026 in Vienna. Our session is titled “Beyond Fun and Games? Rethinking Archaeogaming, Play, and DigitalHeritage”. It builds on the lively discussions of previous years. But it takes a sharper…
One of the rewarding parts of my new role in Berlin has been helping to organize the Digital Classicist Berlin Seminar 2025/26. Hosted by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW), this long-running lecture series brings together researchers from across the world who explore the use of digital methods in the study of the…