Academic Career

2022 – 2025 Research Associate, Computer Science, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany.

2021 – 2022: Research Associate, Geoarchaeology, Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg, Germany.

2021 – Sep 2021: Lecturer, Quantitative Analysis, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany.

2020 – 2021: Research Assistant, Data Management and Programming, University of Cologne, Germany.

Education

Since 2022: PhD Candidate in Computer Science, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany.

2018 – 2020: M.A. in Archaeology (Prehistory, Archaeoinformatics), University of Cologne, Germany.

2014 – 2017: B.A. in Archaeological Science (Prehistory, Near Eastern Archaeology), Philipps University of Marburg, Germany.

Field and Research Projects

2022 – 2024: Lead Investigator for multiple 3D scanning projects of lithic artefacts in Germany, Czech Republic, and Hungary.

2022: Investigator in 3D scanning project in Georgia and Armenia, including UAV monitoring of Bronze Age settlements.

2021 – 2022: Investigator in magnetic and GPR survey projects in Germany and Czech Republic; co-organisation of the summer school ‘Monitoring Heritage 2021’.

Information at ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8855-9332

Digital archaeology

   - 3D scanning and data analysis (e.g. segmentation)

   - Graph modeling of surface features for the investigation of lithic technologies

   - Data analysis with Python and R

   - Statistics

   - GIS analysis and landscape archaeology

   - Databases

Archaeology

   - Paleolithic of Central Europe

   - Chaîne opératoire of lithic artifacts

   - Methods and theories in archaeology

   - Experimental Archaeology

   - Cultural evolution

Peer-reviewed Publications and Preprints

• Reusing 3D Measurement Data of Lithic Artifacts to Develop Analytical Methods. NWDVA 2024 Bochum: Digitale Archäologie, 2025. DOI: https://doi.org/10.11588/ai.2024.1.110395.
• From Scar to Scar: Reconstructing Operational Sequences of Lithic Artifacts Using Scar-Ridge-Pattern-Based Graph Models. Zenodo, 2025. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10969327.
• Linking Scars: Topology-Based Scar Detection and Graph Modeling of Paleolithic Artifacts in 3D. Zenodo, 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8296269.
• Where the Grass is Greener — Large-Scale Phenological Patterns and Their Explanatory Potential for the Distribution of Paleolithic Hunter-Gatherers in Europe. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-023-09628-3.
• Analyzing Trends in Material Culture Evolution—A Case Study of Gravettian Points from Lower Austria and Moravia. Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology, 2023. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s41982-023-00145-z.
• Lithic Feature Identification in 3D Based on Discrete Morse Theory. The Eurographics Association, 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2312/gch.20221224.

Data and Code Publications

• 3D Data Derivatives of Grotta di Fumane: GigaMesh-processed, Annotations and Segmentations. Zenodo, 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8288966.
• PaleolithicGreening. Zenodo, 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10450453.
• PyREnArA (Python-R-Environment-for-Artefact-Analysis). Zenodo, 2023. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7534187.