Birgitta Eder | |
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Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Vienna |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Classical archaeology; Mycenology |
Institutions | University of Freiburg; Austrian Academy of Sciences |
Birgitta Eder is an Austrian archaeologist and Mycenologist. She is the director of the Austrian Archaeological Institute at Athens. [1]
Eder studied ancient history and classical archaeology at the University of Vienna from 1980 until 1986, followed by postgraduate study at University College London in 1988/89. [2] She completed her PhD at the University of Vienna in 1995. During this period she also worked as a research assistant in the Mycenaean Commission of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. [2] [3]
Eder held an APART-Stipendum (Austrian Programme for Advanced Research and Technology) at the Austrian Academy of Sciences from 1998 until 2000. [3] In 1997, she participated in the German Archaeological Institute excavation at Olympia. [2] From 2001 until 2007, she continued to work as a researcher at the Mycenaean Commission of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. [2] In 2007, she joined the department of Classical Archaeology of the Institute of Archaeological Science at the University of Freiburg. [2] In 2013, she returned to the Austrian Academy of Sciences, where she worked as a researcher in the Institute for Oriental and European Archaeology, and from 2014 was the director of the Mycenaean Aegean research group. [3] [4] In 2018, she was awarded a habilitation at TU Darmstadt for the work Elis und Olympia: Die Genese zweier Zentren einer Landschaft ("Elis and Olympia: Genesis of two centres of a landscape"). [3] In the same year, she was a visiting fellow at Merton College, Oxford. [3]
Since 2019, Eder has been the director of the Austrian Archaeological Institute at Athens. [5] She is project leader for excavations at Kakovatos and Kleidi-Samikon (with the Ephorate of Antiquities in Elis, co-director Erofili Kolia) in the Peloponnese. [6] [7]
In February 2020, she gave the Denys Haynes Memorial Lecture at the British Museum. [8]
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