Dr. Regine Hunziker-Rodewald is Professor Emerita at the University of Strasbourg, where she held the Chair of Old Testament Studies, History of Israel and the Ancient Near East from 2008 to 2023. Since 2024, she has been conducting research as a visiting scholar at the Institute for Near Eastern Archaeology at the Free University of Berlin.

She is currently working on an annotated new edition of the Panamuwa I inscription, which will be published in the volume she edited together with Konstantin Klein (Amsterdam) [HadadDigital]: The Biography of a Statue and Its Inscription Harrassowitz. Two open access articles have already been published in this context:

• ‘Deep Aramaic: Towards a Synthetic Data Paradigm Enabling Machine Learning in Epigraphy’
  (with Andrei Aioanei et al.), PLOS ONE 19 (4), 2024.

• ‘DeepHadad: Enhancing Readability of Damaged Inscriptions with Synthetic Data’
  (with Andrei Aioanei et al.), ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, 2025.

Together with Dominik Bonatz, she gave a lecture at the FU in May 2024 entitled ‘The Hadad Statue from the Kingdom of Samʾal: History and Current Research on a Colossal Monument’ as part of the lecture series Behind the Construction Fence. Treasures of the Museum of the Ancient Near East Rediscovered (Open Lecture Hall 2024).

In May 2025, Hunziker-Rodewald, together with Elisa Roßberger and Marina Weiß, played a key role in planning, organising and running the workshop ‘Meant to Move: Kinetic Expression in Figurines from Ancient Western Asia and the Eastern Mediterranean’ at the Institute for Near Eastern Archaeology at Freie Universität Berlin.

Hunziker-Rodewald is also a member of the Dadan Archaeological Project (CNRS/AFALULA/RCU) and is currently working on the publication of the terracotta figurines from Dadan, Saudi Arabia.