Falko Daim

Affiliated Researcher

k.M., Univ.-Prof. Dr.

Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

1976
Dec. 3rd

PhD, Faculty of Philosophy, Department for Prehistory and Historical Archaeology, University of Vienna, Austria

1986

Habilitation in Ur- und Frühgeschichte

CURRENT  POSITION

2018-

retired. Univ.-Professor at the Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies, Department for Prehistoric and Historical Archaeology, University of Vienna, Austria

PREVIOUS POSITIONS

2003-2018

General Director of the Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum. Research Institute for Archaeology, Mainz, Germany. Affiliated to the Leibniz Society

2000-2003

Full Professor, Faculty of Philosophy, Department for Prehistory and Early Medieval Archaeology, University of Vienna, Austria

1992

Associate Professor, ibid.

1978-1992

Assistant Professor, ibid.

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

2019

Visiting professor at the Department of History, Princeton University

1978-2019

courses and seminars on early medieval archaeology, archaeological theory, methods in archaeology. Faculty of Philosophy, Department for Prehistory and Historical Archaeology, University of Vienna

2002

Visiting lecturer at University of Bucharest, Romania

2000

Visiting lecturer at Northwest University Xian, China

1998

Visiting professor at the University Los Angeles, USA

1993

Visiting lecturer at University of Bratislava, Slovakia

1990 and 1992

Visiting lecturer in Izevsk, Russia, and 1992 at Ljubljana University, Slovenia

 

ORGANISATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS

2018

From the Huns to the Turks: Mounted Warriors in Europe and Central Asia. Mainz, 25.-26.04. 2018, Initiator, organiser. Ca. 50 participants.

2017

Pilgrimage to Jerusalem: Christians, Jews and Muslims. Jerusalem, Israel, 5.-7.12. 2017. Initiator. Ca. 40 participants.

2017

Sassanidische Spuren in der byzantinischen, kaukasischen und islamischen Kunst und Kultur. Mainz, Germany, 18.-20.10. 2017. Organiser, together with N. Asutay-Effenberger. Ca. 100 participants.

2016

Migration and Integration from Prehistory to the Middle Ages. Halle/Saale, Germany, 20.-22.10. 2016. Organiser, together with H. Meller, J. Krause and R. Risch. Ca. 150 participants.

2013

Harbours and Maritime Networks as Complex Adaptive Systems. Mainz, Germany, 17.-18.10. 2013. Organiser, together with J. Preiser-Kapeller. Ca. 50 participants.

2010

Der Doppeladler: Byzanz und die Seldschuken in Anatolien vom späten 11. bis zum 13. Jahrhundert. Mainz, Germany, 1.-3.10. 2010. Organiser, together with N. Asutay-Effenberger. Ca. 40 participants.

2010

Hinter den Mauern und auf dem offenen Land: Leben im Byzantinischen Reich. Mainz, Germany, 3.-6.6. 2010. Organiser, together with J. Drauschke. Ca. 80 participants.

MEMBERSHIPS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES

2010-2018

Member of the Board of the Ludwig Boltzmann-Institute for Archaeological Prospection and Virtual Archaeology, Vienna, Austria

2010

Member of the Austrian Archaeological Institute, Vienna, Austria

2009

Corresponding Member of the Archaeological Institute of the Slovakian Academy of Science, Nitra, Slovakia

2007

Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria

2003-2018

Member of the Roman-German Commission of the German Archaeological Institute, Frankfurt, Germany

2003-2014

Founding Member of the Central Directory of the German Archaeological Institute, Berlin, Germany

2003     

Member of the German Archaeological Institute, Berlin, Germany

CURATOR OF LARGE EXHIBITIONS

2018      

Byzantium and the West (Schallaburg, Lower Austria)

2012

Golden Byzantium and the Orient (Schallaburg, Lower Austria)

2010

Byzantium - Splendour and Daily Life (Art- and Exhibition Hall, Bonn, Germany)

2006

Xi'an – Imperial Power in the Afterlife: Burial Goods and Temple Treasuresfrom China’s Ancient Capital (Art- and Exhibition Hall, Bonn, Germany)

1996  

Huns and Avars: Mounted Warriors from the East (Halbturn, Burgenland, Austria)