Prof. Barbara Horejs

Austrian Archaeological Institute (ÖAI), Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna

Professor Horejs is a prehistoric archaeologist, a graduate of the Universities of Vienna, Athens, and Berlin between 1994 and 2000. She completed her Master's degree (Magister, 2002) and her doctoral studies (2005) at the Free University Berlin. Currently, she is the Scientific Director of the Austrian Archaeological Institute at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, as well as the Deputy Head of Human Evolution and Archaeological Sciences (HEAS) and holds an Honorary Professorship at the University of Vienna as well as at the University of Tübingen.

Professor Horejs' main academic interests include prehistoric archaeology in Western Asia and Europe, with a particular focus on Southeastern Europe, the Aegean, Anatolia, and the Near East. Her research questions focus on neolithisation processes, knowledge transfer, communication networks, chronologies, technological studies and multispecies archaeology from the late Pleistocene to the mid-Holocene. In these scientific fields, she has led several international projects and has published and edited numerous scientific papers and monographs.

Professor Horejs is chair of the scientific advisory board of the Leibniz Center for Archaeology (LEIZA), a full member of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) and a committee member of the Austrian Society for Prehistory and Early History (ÖGUF).