Primary fields of research

Postdoc at Prehistoric Archaeology, Saxo (stationed in Kiel) on the project "Unearthing Social Echelons" funded by Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF #4255-00005B), with a focus on quantitative methods, prehistoric migrations, wealth and inequality. Additionally, creating archaeological video games. PhD in Prehistoric Archaeology at Saxo with the project "Ranks to Riches, Bust to Posh - Modelling Wealth and Inequality in the Czech Corded Ware culture" (Main Supervisor: Rune Iversen). This project focuses on developing new methods in quantifying observable grave wealth display and social inequality. The case study attempts to identify and quantify grave wealth and social inequality in Czech Corded Ware culture graves from grave goods, burial architecture and resource networks combined with ancient DNA data and skeletal pathologies (where available) to investigate how social inequality developed when herders from the Pontic-Caspian steppes spread in Europe from c. 2900 BCE.

My current Postdoc "Unearthing Social Echelons" expands on the data and methods in the same field using also AI technology for automated data collection and developing software to make my methods and results easily available. 

I have recently also ventured into the field of AI in archaeogaming, by mkaing archaeological video games with 3D photogrammetry heritage models in an immersive setting in Unreal Engine where NPCs disseminate the past interactively through free oral conversation with the player. 

In my MA thesis, "Shaving the Warrior" (supervisor: James Alan Johnson), I combined linguistics and archaeology when studying the antiquity of the archaeological ”beauty kits” of Bronze elite warriors vs. the ideology and rituals of Bronze Age elite warriors. 

I have also mapped ancient genomes and migrations at Evolutionary Genomics, SUND, UCPH, also with archaeological cultures, and language areas, see https://ancientgenomes.com and I was part of the team in EuroWeb (with CTR) building an online atlas of textile heritage (https://atlas.euroweb.uw.edu.pl) based on my own proto-type as a student. 

My educational background is in Indo-European studies (BA and MA), and I early on focused my studies on multidisciplinary approaches to Indo-European topics to illuminate culture and the branching of Indo-European languages and migrations by combining language, archaeology, genetics and whatever disciplines that may be relevant in the investigation of a topic.

Teaching

Copper Age Central Europe, Quantitative archaeology, statistics, GIS, R, AI, prehistoric wealth inequality, prehistoric migrations, archaeolinguistics