About us

Edeltraud Aspöck 

edeltraud.aspoeck@uni-graz.at

Edeltraud is an Assistant Professor for Digital Archaeology at the University of Graz, Department of Classics. She is the Principal Investigator of the ERC Consolidator Grant project "The Present Dead: Investigating Interactions with the Dead in Early Medieval Central and Eastern Europe from 5th to 8th Centuries CE" (ERC, PresentDead, 101089324). Part of the PresentDead approach to early medieval reopened inhumation graves is to reconstruct how the archaeological record of the grave developed.

Lucia Formato

luciaclara.formato@oeaw.ac.at 

Lucia was born in Milan. She studied Provincial Roman Archaeology, Pre- and Early History and Late Antique Art History, and is currently project manager at the Austrian Archaeological Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. Her research focuses on Roman necropolises and settlements. She has reviously worked on projects in southern Germany, Tyrol, Italy and Egypt.

Tereza Galovičová

tgalovicova@seznam.cz 

Tereza is a PhD student of the Anthropology and Human Genetics program at Charles University in the Czech Republic. She is a researcher in the field of bioarchaeology, focusing on the estimation of biological profile parameters and paleopathology, particularly in relation to demographic crises.

Florence Habran

florence.habran@gmail.com

Florence is a bioanthropologist with a training in archaeothanatology fom the University of Bordeaux. She worked at the ÖAI as part of her Master's program, focusing on a biological and funerary approach to a collection from Burgenland.  

Arwa Kharobi

arwakharobi@sci.muni.cz

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Paul Klostermann

paul.klostermann@nhm.at

Paul is a PhD student at the at the University of Vienna and is based at the Department of Anthropology at the Natural History Museum in Vienna. Since 2021, he has been involved in the Synergy ERC project HistoGenes. His doctoral research focuses on the osteological study of adolescence in the early medieval period and methods to studying growth and development in the past.

Théo Malezieux

theo.malezieux@u-bordeaux.fr

Théo is a bioanthropologist with a training in archaeothanatology performed at the University of Bordeaux. His work is focused around bone taphonomy in the context of human behaviour studies,especially bioersion and imagaing technics involved in taphonomy analysis.

Eliza Orellana-González

orellana.eliza@uni-graz.at 

Eliza is an archaeo-anthropologist within training in archaeothanatology,  biological anthropology, archaeology, and archaeometry. Her PhD explored fluoride intoxication in Roman populations. She is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the ERC project PresentDead and contributing to the archaeothanatological study of grave reopening events in on Early Medieval period on Central-Eastern Europe.

Caroline Partiot

caroline.partiot@oeaw.ac.at 

Caroline is a postdoctoral researcher at the Austrian Archaeological Institute at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Bioarchaeology Lab, Archaeological Sciences) since 2023. She is a biological anthropologist and funerary archaeologist with training in archaeothanatology from the University of Bordeaux. She specializes in the biological variability of children and their funerary practices, and founded the ARTHA network.

Leslie Quade

leslie.quade@oeaw.ac.at  

Leslie is a bioarchaeologist and palaeopathologist, specialising in interdisciplinary analyses of stress and health from human skeletal remains. She has a BA from Columbia University, an MSc and PhD from Durham University, and she completed a postdoc at Masaryk University in 2023. She is currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the department of Prehistory and WANA Archaeology in the Austrian Archaeological Institute, where she is investigating stress markers and cortisol in teeth. 

Katharina Rebay-Salisbury

katharina.rebay-salisbury@univie.ac.at 

Katharina is a Professor of Prehistoric Humanities at the University of Vienna and leads the "Prehistoric Identities" research group at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Her research on the European Bronze and Iron Ages focuses on combining interdisciplinary approaches to gain insights into people's lives, identities, and social relationships in prehistory.  Her current research focuses on biological and social gender, motherhood, kinship, mobility and migration. 

Géraldine Sachau-Carcel

geraldine.carcel@univ-amu.fr 

Géraldine is a lecturer in archaeothanatology at the Aix-Marseille University in France. Her research focuses on the treatment of the dead with a focus on the spatial volume of graves and bodies, to investigate gestures, material investment, funerary or mortuary practices, from the deposition of the corpse to the discovery of the skeletal remains. In addition, she contributes to the development of new standards and new methodological approaches for the study of the dead.

Hannah Skerjanz

hannah.skerjanz@univie.ac.at 

is a prehistoric archaeologist and is currently working as a pre-doctoral and PhD candidate at the University of Vienna. She is interested in combining archaeological and bio-archaeological aspects and currently focuses on cemetery analyses of the Middle to Late Bronze Age transition period that comprises inhumation and cremation burials.

Magdalena Srienc-Ściesiek

magdalena.srienc-sciesiek@oeaw.ac.at 

is a doctoral candidate in Biological Anthropology at the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of Vienna. Her research investigates the social and cultural transitions of the early medieval period and their effects on the health and diet of communities in the eastern Alpine region of Austria and Slovenia. By combining macroscopic and biomolecular methods—such as stable isotope analysis and ancient DNA—her work explores how significant historical shifts, like the collapse of the Roman Empire, shaped the biological and cultural adaptations of these populations.

Domnika Verdianu

domnika.verdianu@oeaw.ac.at

Domnika is a member of the "Prehistoric Identities" research group at the Austrian Archaeological Institute. Trained in archaeology and human osteology, she completed her Masters at the University of Vienna and studied the University of Bradford (Erasmus+). Her main research interests spans from the Palaeolithic to the Middle Ages, with research interests in funerary archaeology, palaeopathology, archaeothanatology, and European prehistory, particularly the Metal Ages.

Lukas Waltenberger

lukas.waltenberger@univie.ac.at

is an osteologist and works as a postdoc at the department of Prehistory and Historical Archaeology (University of Vienna) and a guest researcher at the Austrian Archaeological Institute (Austrian Academy of Sciences). His research focus lies in the analysis of prehistoric cremation burials, trauma analysis, forensic anthropology, and isotope analyses..

Estella Weiss-Krejci

estella.weiss-krejci@univie.ac.at

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