Alexandra Rodler-Rørbo
Junior Group Leader with Tenure Option (JGL-T)
Contact
Email: Alexandra.Rodler-Roerbo(at)oeaw.ac.at
Telephone: +43 1 51581-4138
Location: Dominikanerbastei 16 | 1010 Vienna
Biographical sketch
Studied geosciences with doctorate at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, focusing on materials synthesis, trace element and isotope geochemistry. Scientific project collaborator at the Polychromy Research Group at Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen. Postdoctoral fellow at the Saxo Institute (University of Copenhagen), the Analytical, Environmental and Geo-Chemistry Research Group (Free University of Brussels), MSCA-IF fellow of the FG Objectitineraries at the ÖAI. Supervision of academic work in geochemistry and archaeometry and teaching at the University of Copenhagen, Free University of Brussels, University of Vienna and University of Applied Arts Vienna. Since 2023 PI of the ERC Starting Grant HUE, Senior Lecturer at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Research Associate and Junior Group Leader at the ÖAI and member of the Young Academy of the ÖAW.
Research Projects
- »Colour in a New Light: Origin, Trade and Cultural Significance of Pigments«
- »Ephesian Egyptian Blue: Origin and Trade«
- »Earth pigments from the late Hellenistic pigment production of Kos«
- »Sampling ancient polychromy«
- »Geochemical Investigations to Identify the Origin of Roman Pigments in Noricum«
- »The Colours of Ephesos: Origin, Trade and Cultural Exchange«
Research interests
- Interdisciplinary archaeometric investigations of inorganic and organic archaeological materials.
- Intersections between production technologies, raw material use and procurement (ores, sands, earth, glass-metal paint)
- Diachronic changes in the organisation of production and trade networks in the context of cultural, social and political changes
- Use and significance of colours from the Late Bronze and Iron Ages, to Hellenistic and Roman contexts, Late Antiquity to early Middle Ages