Dr. Eleftheria Paliou

Excellence Cluster Topoi

Eleftheria Palious general research interests lies within the fields of history and prehistory of human urban settlement in Greece and Italy. She is specialized also in the use of Geographic Information Systems and 3D modelling in Archaeology and actively has been involved in developing innovative methods of computer-based spatial analysis. Her research on visibility and movement in historic and prehistoric built spaces aims to understand how people in the past thought and conceptualised various aspects of their environment, and eventually to examine social aspects of past spaces. She has been engaged with projects in the fields of the Aegean Bronze Age, Roman and Byzantine archaeology. Actually she hold the Marie-Curie-Fellowship. For more information, see her blog.

 

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Senior Fellow

01.06.2010 - 30.06.2010

Junior Fellow

01.04.2009 - 31.03.2010
 

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"Visibility analysis in 3D spaces: a new dimension to the understanding of social space"
part of the Workshop Spatial analysis in built spaces: an interdisciplinary and international workshop

 

Curriculum Vitae

April 2009 - May 2010 Junior Research Fellow in the Excellence Cluster TOPOI: The transformation of space and knowledge in ancient civilisations, Free University, Berlin.Project: Mapping the senses: Perceptual and social aspects of Late Antique liturgy in San Vitale, Ravenna (ca. 548 AD)
2004-2008 PhD thesis (degree awarded in June 2009): The visual consumption of mural painting in Late Bronze Age Akrotiri (Thera, Greece)- A computational approach to visibility analysis in three-dimensional built spaces, University of Southampton, School of humanities. Supervisor: Dr David Wheatley, Full funding awarded by the State Scholarship Foundation (Greece).
2001-2002 MSc in Archaeological Information Systems, University of York, UK, Department of Archaeology, Grade awarded: Distinction
1996-2000 BA Hons (Ptychion) in Archaeology and History of Art, University of Athens, Greece, Department of History and Archaeology.