Team

Core team ERC ADG “The Hyksos Enigma”

  • Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Manfred Bietak (Principal Investigator of ‘The Hyksos Enigma’ – an Austrian Egyptologist and Archaeologist working in the Eastern Nile Delta since 1966)
  • Prof. Dr. Holger Schutkowski † (Professor at Bournemouth University (BU) – a German Bioarchaeologist and Supervisor for Physical Anthropology, isotope and DNA studies) successor at BU
  • Prof. Dr. Kate Welham (Professor of Archaeological Sciences)
  • Dr. Silvia Prell (Assistant to PI & PostDoc Researcher, a German Egyptologist working in the Nile Delta since 2002)
  • Dr. Sarah Vilain (PostDoc Researcher, a French Archaeologist with expertise in ceramic production)
  • Dr. Anna-Latifa Mourad (PostDoc Researcher, an Australian National investigating culture and religion )
  • Silvia Gómez-Senovilla, MA (Pre-Doctoral Researcher, a Spanish Archaeologist who will research settlements and architecture)
  • Dr. Elisa Priglinger (PostDoc Researcher, an Austrian Archaeologist/Egyptologist who concentrates on migration studies)
  • Nina Maaranen, MA (Pre-Doctoral Researcher, a Finnish National supporting Prof. Schutkowski and the PostDoc)
  • Dr. Christina Stantis (PostDoc Researcher, an American bioarchaeologist using isotope chemistry to investigate diet and mobility)
  • Dr. Arwa Kharobi (PostDoc Researcher, a Syro-Palestinian bioarchaeologist specialising in paleopathology)
  • Mag. phil. Patrick Aprent (an Austrian Architect who supports the whole team with publication work) and Dominik Fill (an Austrian student in Architecture)
  • Rosa Matic (Project Manager with administration and EU expertise from Austria)

Associates

  • Dr. Alexander Ahrens (German Archaeological Institute, Damascus)
  • Dr. David Aston (OREA, Austrian Academy of Sciences)
  • Dr. Bettina Bader (OREA, Austrian Academy of Sciences)
  • Dr. Hanan Charaf Mullins (Editor, Archaeological Report Series Monographs, ASOR, USA)
  • Prof. Dr. Peter Fischer (Department of Historical Studies, University of Goteborg)
  • Dr. Karin Kopetzky (OREA, Austrian Academy of Sciences)
  • Dr. Mohamed Abdel Maksoud (Ministry of State of Antiquities Egypt)
  • Dr. Ezra Marcus (University of Haifa)
  • Prof. Dr. Paolo Matthiae (Institute of Archaeology and Art History, Sapienza University of Rome)
  • Dr. Vera Müller (OREA, Austrian Academy of Sciences)
  • Prof. Dr. Thomas Schneider (Department of Classical, Near Eastern & Religious Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver)
  • Prof. Dr. Michael Schultz (Institute for Anatomy, Medical University of Gottingen)
  • PD Dr. Albert Zink (Institute for Mummies and the Iceman, EURAC Research)

This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 668640).

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