Barbara Horejs
Deputy Executive Director OeAI
Barbara Horejs
Deputy Executive Director OeAI
- Scientific Director and Head Dpt. of Prehistory & WANA-Archaeology
- RG »Prehistoric Phenomena«
- +43 1 51581-6101
- barbara.horejs(at)oeaw.ac.at
- Dominikanerbastei 16, 1010 Vienna
Biographical sketch
Studies of Prehistory and Protohistory as well as Classical Archeology at the Universities of Vienna, Athens and Berlin. Graduation with “Summa cum laude” at the Freie Universität Berlin in 2005, subsequently holder of the travel grant of the German Archaeological Institute (2005/06). Awarded with the FWF START prize in 2010 as well as an ERC Starting Grant in 2011. 2011–2012 Director of the Young Curia of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW). 2013–2020 Director of the Institute for Oriental and European Archeology (OREA) at the ÖAW. Since 2021 Scientific Director of the Austrian Archaeological Institute at the ÖAW. 2015 awarding of an honorary professorship at the University of Tübingen in the field of Prehistory and Protohistory. Since 2015 Corresponding Member of the Division of Humanities and the Social Sciences of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and since 2016 Corresponding Member of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI). Since 2020 Member of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI). 2019–2021 Chair of the Board of Directors of OeAW Institutes. Editor of the journal Archaeologia Austriaca as well as of the series Mitteilungen der Prähistorischen Kommission (MPK), Oriental and European Archaeology (OREA) and Perspectives on Balkan Archaeology (PeBA). Head of excavations, surveys and material studies in Turkey, Greece, Iran, United Arab Emirates, Bulgaria and Serbia. 2022 Award of the honorary professorship of the University of Vienna for the subject »Prehistory«. Since 2023 Deputy Head of Human Evolution and Archaeological Sciences (HEAS).
DETAILED BIOGRAPHY PUBLICATIONS
Research Projects
- »Prehistoric Anatolia: From Sedentism to Protourban Societies in Western Anatolia«
- Kalba: Research on Bronze Age Trade Networks and Resource Managemet Strategies
- »Survey of the Prehistoric Surroundings of Pergamon«
- »The BEAN Project: Bridging the European and Anatolian Neolithic, Demography, Migration, and Lifestyle at the Advent of Civilisation«
- »Wechselwirkung prähistorischer Pyrotechniken in Handwerk und Gewerbe«
- »ARCANE: Synchronizing Cultures and Civilizations of the Ancient Near east and the Eastern Mediterranean in the 3rd Millennium BC«
- »Madra River Delta Project«
- »Tracking House-Related Practices from the Northern Levant to the Aegean Basin«
- »Pathways to the Late Neolithic of Central and Western Anatolia«
- »Prehistoric Sirvan«
- »Modelling the Neolithic: Origins of Lithic Technologies in the 7th Millennium BC Western Anatolia and Aegean«
- »Bronze Age Gold Road of the Balkans - Ada Tepe Mining: Producers and Consumers«
- »A New Approach for Golden Treasures: Innovative Analyses in Archaeometry«
- »Pusta Reka Research NEOTECH Project«
- »Visualizing the unknown Balkans«
- »Puzzle in 4D - Tell el-Dabʿa«
- »Neolithic Imagery«
- »NEOSOL: Sediment Archives of Neolithisation along the Vardar-Morava«
- »Neolithic Stone Axes from Çukuriçi Höyük. Artefacts, usewear and 3D visualization«
Research interests
- Prehistoric archeology in Southeast Europe and West Asia
- Neolithic – Copper Age – Bronze Age
- Excavations, geoarchaeological surveys and landscape archaeology
- Neolithisation, intensification & centralisation
- Knowledge transfer, communication networks, material studies, innovation and technologies
- Scientific analysis and its evaluation with interdisciplinary and international teams
- Creation of primary data through archaeological fieldwork (excavations and survey)