Thoralf Schröder studied Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, Ancient History and Media & Communication Studies in Göttingen, Rostock, Heidelberg and Munich. He is about to finish his PhD on Roman Portraits of the Provinces Achaea and Macedonia. Since 2009 he is Coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Centre for the Study of the Ancient World (IZAW) at the Freie Universität Berlin and Staff Member of the Institute of Classical Archaeology.