Archaeology:

Settlement and funerary archaeology of Bronze and Iron Age Mesopotamia, Syria, Anatolia, and the Arabian Peninsula.

Landscape archaeology

Methods and techniques of field archaeology

Gender archaeology in the Ancient Near East.

History:

Historical geography and regional studies in Syria and Mesopotamia.

Capacity building:

Training and empowering female colleagues in today’s Near East.

2018 Mobility in Arabia. International Workshop organized within the 11th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE), Munich, April 5 2018

2016 The Archaeology of Arabia: Connecting the Evidence. International Workshop organized within the 10th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE), Vienna April 25 2016

2013  The Archaeology of Northern Arabia: Oases and Landscapes, 5-8 December, University of Vienna, financed by the Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies of the University of Vienna, the Austrian Embassy in Saudi Arabia, the Saudi and Qatar Embassies in Austria, the Saudi Heritage Preservation Society and other institutions.

2006  Recent trends in the Study of Late Bronze Age Ceramics in Syro-Mesopotamia and neighbouring regions, Berlin, November, 2-5 (with C. Beuger and A. Hausleiter). Financed by the German Archaeological Institute, the Gerda-Henkel Foundation and the Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies, University of Vienna.

Referee for the ERIH-listed, A-rated scientific journal Levant: The Jour­­nal of the Council for British Research in the Levant .

Referee for the peer-reviewed journal Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean of the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw.

Member of the redactional committee of the Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, Vienna.

1992-1995         Three-year full Ph.D. scholarship, Ist. Universitario Orientale, Naples.

1996-1999          Three-year full Specialization Scholarship, University of Pisa.

Member of the Orientalische Gesellschaft an der Universität Wien, Vienna.

Mitglied des Doktoratsbeirat

Mitglied der Mittelbaukurie

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