PROJECTS
(Master students can contact respective project leader for initiation of a possible PhD thesis)
CURRENT PROJECTS
Projects led by Ioannis Liritzis
- Advanced investigations in the Obsidian hydration dating: Developing new methods of dating of obsidian tools via physico-chemical and image analysis techniques (Collaborators: Dr. Ion Andronache, Bucharest Univ, Romania; Prof. Christopher Stevenson, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA)
- Fractal and Complexity measures solving archaeological, geoarchaeological and historical questions (Collaborators: Dr Ion Andronache, Bucharest Univ, Romania; Prof. Ioannis Iliopoulos & Dr Vayia Xanthopoulou, Patras University, Greece)
- Delphi4Delphi: digital archaeology initiative for ancient Delphi, Greece (Collaborators: Prof. Tom Levy, UCSD, USA; Dr. Apostolos Vlachos, University of the Aegean, Greece; Mcavoy, Scott, Qualcomm Institute, UC San Diego]
Advanced techniques of archaeometallurgy: Greek & Chinese cases studies of metal artifacts, corrosion products, alloying, casting and forging technology, characterization and provenance, dating of ancient metals (Collaborators-Partner Institutions: Dr Sophie Cazottes and Dr Thierry Douillard, Univ. of Lyon, France; Prof. Muriel Véron, Grenoble University, France; Prof. Josep Roqué-Rosell and DR Carlo Marini, ALBA Synchtrotron Light source & Univ. of Barcelona, Spain; Dr Partha Patrim Das, Dr Alejandro Gomez-Perez, Dr Athanassios S. Galanis and Dr Stavros Nicolopoulos, NanoMEGAS SPRL, Brussels, Belgium; Asst Prof. Panagiota Manti, Ionion University, Greece; Prof. Junchang Yang, and Assoc Prof.Fiona Liu, Research Center of Material Science and Archaeology, Institute of Culture and Heritage, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China; Xiangyu Zhang, Xi’an Institute of Conservation and Archaeology, Xi’an, China.
- Comparative Archaeology: First case study, Late Mycenaean and Late Shang Dynasty). Holistic approach of Parallel Comparativisms of World Cultures via tangible and intangible cultural heritage remains studied with Art, Science, STEM tools (Collaborators: Prof. Wang Wei, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing & Henan University Institute of World Archaeology, China; Asst. Prof. Anja Hellmuth Kramberger, Alma Mater Europaea University, Slovenia; Dr. Alex Westra, Henan Univ., China; Prof. Changhong Miao, Institute of Yellow River Cultural Heritage, Henan Univ., China; Prof. Ioannis Iliopoulos, Patras Univ., Greece)
- Kastrouli Late Mycenaean settlement archaeometrical investigations & Museological Exhibition Project: Delphi, Greece 2023- today. Follow up archaeometrical analysis and a museological project for a semi-permanent archaeological exhibition of Kastrouli excavated finds in the Isaiah Museum Desfina, near Delphi. (Collaborators: Prof. A. Sideris, Charles Univ Prague, Czech; Asst. Prof. Panagiota Manti, Ionion Univ., Greece; Prof. Tom Levy UC San Diego, USA; Dr. Alex Westra, Henan Univ., China; Prof. Ioannis Iliopoulos, Patras Univ, Greece
Projects Anja Hellmuth Kramberger
- BATSH 19 – Die Kleinfunde aus dem Roten Haus in Dūr-Katlimmu (Collaborator-Partner Institution: Prof. H. Kühne, Freie Universität Berlin; ARIS (P6-0278 (A))
- Cultural Formation and Cultural Memory (ARIS (P6-0278 (A))
Projects Daniel Siter
- Research of Cultural Formations (ARIS (P6–0278 (A)
Important and Far-Reaching Exhibitions organized by Daniel Siter
- Shtalag XVIII D. 5000 shagov v bessmertiy. Exhibition at the Krasnogorsk branch of the Victory Museum, Moscow, Russia
- Iztrgati pozabi: Stalag XVIII-D (306): nacistično taborišče za vojne ujetnike v Mariboru. Exhibition in the premises of the International Research Center for the Second World War, Maribor, Slovenia
- Nacistično taborišče Stalag XVIII-D (306) in njegovi poveljniki. Exhibition in the premises of the International Research Center for the Second World War Maribor, Slovenia
Projects Matej Mertik
- TBrainBoost – Enhancing brain circulation for healthy ageing, funded under Widening participation and spreading excellence (ID: 101120150). Project strive to boost international and intersectoral mobility and improve links between academia, business and society in healthy aging.
- Constructive Theology in the Age of Digital Culture and the Anthropocene – The research program deals with some of the most important issues of the present from an interdisciplinary point of view. The main goal of the research is to understand and put into dialogue the role of Christianity in the ethics of environmental protection, raising ecological awareness on the one hand, and theological and philosophical interpretation technology, especially digital technologies, on the other (P6-0434, 2022 – 2028).
COMPLETED PROJECTS
Projects of excavations and research led by Ioannis Liritzis
- 2016-2023: Kastrouli Late Mycenaean settlement archaeological & archaeometrical investigations (Delphi, Greece) (co-PI Prof. Tom Levy: 2016-2017; collaborator-advisor: 2018-2023, UCSD, California USA; co-PI Dr. A. Koh: 2018, 2022; A. Sideris: 2016-2023; Charles Univ Prague, Czech; Mrs A.Tsaroucha, Phokis Archaeological Ephoreia, Delphi; 2016-2023
Projects of excavations and research Anja Hellmuth Kramberger
- 2017-2019. Monumentalized Early Iron Age Landscapes in the Danube river basin (Interreg project led by M. Mele, deputy project leader A. Hellmuth Kramberger)
- 2016-2018. Bronze Age Settlement Hierarchies in Istria, Croatia (Korean-Croation cooperation led by S. Müller and A. Hellmuth Kramberger)
- 2012-2013. Bronzezeitliche Kommunikationsnetze zwischen Oberitalien, Alpenraum und Schwarzem Meer – Untersucht im Verbreitungsgebiet der so genannten Brotlaibidole (Feodor Lynen Research project led by A. Hellmuth Kramberger)
- 2009-2011. Studien zur Frühen- und Mittleren Bronzezeit um das Caput Adriae (Feodor Lynen Research project led by A. Hellmuth Kramberger)
- 2003-2009. Grabung einer befestigten Siedlung der Bronzezeit in Istrien, Kroatien (Monkodonja) (project of the German Research Foundation (DFG) led by B. Teržan, B. Hänsel and K. Mihivilić, researcher A. Hellmuth Kramberger)
- 2000- 2016. Ausgrabung in Tell Schech Hamad/Dur-Katlimmu) (project of the German Research Foundation (DFG) led by H. Kühne, researcher A. Hellmuth Kramberger)
- Aufarbeitung der Ausgrabung in dem Tell von Agios Mamas aus der mittleren bis späten Bronzezeit (Nordgriechenland) (project of the German Research Foundation (DFG) led by B. Hänsel, student researcher A. Hellmuth Kramberger)
Projects Matej Mertik
- 2019-2022. Hybrid Lab Network HYBRID – was an exploratory project to promote innovation and good practices for Higher Education bridging areas of Art, Science, Technology/Engineering and Humanities, and fostering knowledge sharing and training (2019-1-PT01-KA203-061449).
- 2019-2022. Created Creatures, Humans and Robots: Creation Theology between Humanism and Posthumanism (J6-1813, 2019-2022). The project addressed a particularly culturally relevant topic: the relationship between man and machine, particularly the relationship between man and human-like artificially intelligent (AI) robots of the present and future.
Projects and research Daniel Siter
- 2017–2020. Research of occupation borders in the period of occupied Slovenia (1941–1945) (project by the Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency (ARIS))
- 2021–2022. Project Member of Slovenian-Hungarian Bilateral Research Project Cooperation
Projects of excavations and research led by Emilio Marin
- Excavations in Salona (1984, 1991, 1993-1994, 2000: Necropolis and early Christian basilica of Marusinac; 1987-1991, 1996-1997: necropolis and Christian basilica of Manastrine)
- Excavations in Narona (1990-1999: early Christian basilicas Sv. Vid and Erešove Bare, Roman city walls; 1995-1996 : Augusteum; 1997-1999: Forum ; 1998-1999: Upper town)
- Excavations on the Island of Brač (2003 : chapel of Saint-Domnio)
- Co-director of the Split excavations (1992: Diocletian’s Palace)
Museum Projects led by Emilio Marin
- Arheološki muzej – Split / The Archaeological museum in Split (the renewal of the oldest museum in the South-Eastern Europe, founded 1820)
- Arheološki muzej Narona u Vidu, Metković / The Archaeological museum of Narona in Vid, Metković (the project of the construction of the first archaeological in situ museum in Croatia)
Exhibitions organized by Emilio Marin
- Ancient portraits from the South Slavs countries Barcelona, Madrid, Skopje.
- Salona Christiana Split.
- Oxford-Opuzen Livia Split.
- The Augusteum of Narona Split, Oxford, Barcelona.
2005. The Augusteum of Narona Vatican, Zagreb.