Faidon Moudopoulos Athanasiou
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I am an MSCA Postdoctoral Researcher in the Computational Archaeology Research Group, part of the Computational Social Sciences and Humanities Program (CSSH) at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. My project, "Under the Forest”, explores the afforested archaeological landscape of the Zagori Cultural Landscape (UNESCO World Heritage) in NW Greece. By combining innovative remote sensing techniques with traditional archaeological methods, I aim to map the heritage and material culture that exists under the forested mountainous cultural landscape.
After earning a degree in History and Archaeology from the University of Crete (2013), I completed an MA in Aegean Archaeology at the University of Sheffield (2014), focusing on Bronze Age archaeology and the ethnoarchaeology of Epirus’s montane landscapes. (NW Greece). In 2016, I earned a second MA in Heritage Management (University of Kent & Athens University of Economy and Business), where I developed educational programs for cultural heritage.
In 2017, I was awarded a White Rose College of the Arts and Humanities (WRoCAH – AHRC) scholarship to pursue doctoral research at the University of Sheffield. Supported also by the A.G. Leventis Foundation, my PhD investigated the archaeology of early-modern Zagori in NW Greece, completed in 2021. Simultaneously, I was part of the research group that, under the coordination of the Greek Ministry of Culture, drafted the technical report for Zagori's nomination as a UNESCO World Heritage Property.
Post-PhD, I was awarded the Formacion Juan de la Cierva grant to conduct interdisciplinary research on the landscapes of Epirus. This postdoctoral research, was hosted by the Landscape Archaeology Research Group at the Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology, from January 2023 to December 2024.