CV

Education / academic degrees / awards

Schools:

1958 - 1960 Oberschule (Angermünde)

1960 - 1966 Polytechnische Oberschule (Berlin)

1966 - 1970 Gymnasium (Berlin, Pasteur Str.): Abitur

Universities / Academies:

1972 May-September: Academy of Sciences Berlin: Volontary service at the excavation of the Kaiserpfalz Tilleda (Prof. Grimm);

Sept. 1972 - July 1976 Humboldt University of Berlin, Ur- und Frühgeschichte; archaeological field work in Hungary and Bulgaria (Student travel awards); the study “Stätten von Handwerk und Gewerbe im bulgarischen Donaugebiet vom 3. bis 7. Jh. u. Z.“ (Abschlußarbeit Hauptstudium) was honored with the Alfred-Meusel-Prize of the Department of History

Aug.-Dec. 1976: Fellowship of the Academy of Sciences of Bulgaria, Sofia Specialization: Late Roman and Early medieval archaeology of Southeastern Europe

1976 academic degree: Dipl.-Prähist. (Academic Diploma of Prehistoric Archaeology)

Diplomarbeit: "Studien zur Keramikproduktion im Donau-Karpaten-Raum in der Spätantike und im frühen Mittelalter auf der Grundlage von Werkstattbefunden"; honored with the Humboldt-Prize of the Berlin Humboldt University (published in: Zeitschr. Arch. 11, 1977 and in: Ethn.-Arch. Zeitschr. 19, 1978).

1976 - 1991 Academic employee at the Academy of Sciences Berlin (Central Institute of Ancient History and Archaeology, Berlin: Department of Ur- und Frühgeschichte)

Travel awards:

Bulgaria (Academy of Sciences Sofia),

Yugoslavia (Center of Old Slavonic Culture in Prilep),

Rumania (Academy of Sciences Bucharest),

Hungary (Academy of Sciences Budapest)

1982 academic degree: Dr. phil. (PhD / Doctor philosophiae)

Phil. Dissertation: "Untersuchungen zur Entwicklung der Landwirtschaft in Südosteuropa im Übergang von der Spätantike zum frühen Mittelalter" (Monogr. Publ. Berlin 1987), honored with the Prize of the President of the Academy of Sciences

1977-1991 Excavations (see below)

1992 - 1994 Fellowship of the Wissenschaftler-Integrationsprogramm, teaching at both Berlin universities: Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität Berlin

1993 academic degree: Priv.-Doz. (Privat-Dozent / senior lecturer)

Habilitation in the department of Altertumswissenschaften of the Free University of Berlin. "Von der Römerzeit zum Frühmittelalter. Wirtschaftsarchäologische Quellen zu ökonomischen Wurzeln und technischer Basis der Grundherrschaft in West- und Mitteleuropa"

Travel awards:

Austria (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, ÖAW),

Belgium (Communité français),

France (Centre National des Recherches sientifiques. CNRS),

Germany (Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz, RGZM),

Denmark (Nationalmuseum of Denmark)

1994 - Professor of „Vor- und Frühgeschichte“ at the Frankfurt University

(Institut für Archäologische Wissenschaften, Vor- und Frühgeschichte der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main)

1998 Visiting Professor at the Sofia University “St Kliment Ochridski” / Department of History: Teaching in the summer semester: Early medieval archaeology of Europe; with Shumen University “Konstantin Preslavski”

2002/03 Fellow of Dumbarton Oaks – Byzantine studies

1 academic year visiting scholarship in Washington DC / Georgetown (August 2002 – June 2003)

2005/06 Visiting Professor at the Harvard University / Department of History

Teaching in the Fall Semester: Introduction to Medieval Archaeology (Undergraduates) & Graduate Seminar: Early Medieval Towns 500-1000 AD (with Mike McCormick)

2006 (Spring semester) Invited scholar at the Hebrew university Jerusalem (Israel) Institute of Archaeology and Weizmann Institute of Science (Tel Aviv – Rehovot)

2007 (Spring semester) Invited scholar at the University of Nottingham (UK) Institute of Archaeology and University College of London

2009 elected member of the Archaeological Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Nitra

2010 elected member of the Medieval Academy of America, introduced at Yale University.

Languages: English, French, Russian, Bulgarian, Latin

Reviewer:

- Belgium: FNRS (Fonds national de la recherche scientifique)

- France: CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique)

- Switzerland: SNF (Swiss National Science Foundation)

- Austria: ÖAW (Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften); FWF (Fonds zur Förderung

der wissenschaftlichen Forschung / Austrian Science Fund)

- Czech Republic: GAAV (Grant Agency Academy of Science of the Czech Republic)

- EU: European Science Foundation (Brussels)

- Poland: FNP (Foundation for Polish Science)

- Germany: DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst); Alexander-von-Humboldt

foundation; Gerda Henkel foundation

- Universities:

Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne

Masarykova univerzita v Brně (Masaryk University Bno)

University of Florida, Gainsville USA

Western Michigan University, USA

Positions/projects:

- Elected Director of the Institute / Department of “Vor- und Frühgeschichte” at the Frankfurt University 1994-1996, 2000-2002, 2004-2007.

- Founder and first speaker of the graduate research school “Archaeological analytics” at the Frankfurt University (1997-2000)

- Project director and co-team-leader (with Prof. Dontcheva, Sofia) “German-Bulgarian archaeological expedition in Pliska – Early medieval capital of Bulgaria” (since 1997), sponsored by Volkswagen Foundation

- Director of the archaeological long-term project “Germanen-Slawen-Deutsche”, sponsored by the “Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft” (since 1992), including excavations in Poland (in cooperation with the Polish Academy of Sciences, Dr. Marek Dulinicz)

- Director of the archaeological Project “Settlements, fortifications and central places in Early Medieval Hessia”, sponsored by the Kommission für archäologische Landesforschung in Hessen (since 1998)

- Co-director (with Prof. Buko, University of Warsaw) of the German-Polish project „The man on the European Loess Uplands in the Early middle ages (8th-11th cent.)“, sponsored by “Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst” (DAAD) and the Polish state ministry of culture (KBN); (since 2000).

- Co-director (with Dr. Sc. Matej Ruttkay) of the German-Slovakian project “Early Medieval fortifications of the Moravian principality” (since 2004)

- Co-director (with Prof. Michael McCormick & Prof. Drys Tys): Joint reserch program on written and archaeological evidence of the Carolingian fiscus of Snellegem in Belgium (since 2006); coopration Harvard University, Frankfurt University and Free University fo Bruxelles

Archaeological field research:

Director of archaeological excavations

1977 Ralswiek: early medieval trading place at the Baltic Sea (settlement area);

1978 Rugard: ringfort 11th/12th century at the island of Ruegen;

1979-1985 Presenchen (Lower Lusitia): early medieval ringfort with settlement and cemetery 25.000 m²;

1986-1988 Berlin-Hellersdorf: Germanic and early Slavonic settlement 10.000 m²;

1989-1990: Lübben-Steinkirchen: early Slavonic settlement 10.000m²:

1991-1992 Saßleben: early medieval ringfort

1992-1998 Ringfort program: Excavations of 28 early medieval ringforts in the region of Lower Lusitia, high medieval fortification and town of Dahme, high medieval fortification of Baruth (long term project sponsored by DFG)

1998-2001 Excavations in Hessia: carolingian fortification of Büraburg near Fritzlar, surveys in Northern Hessia and Fulda

1993-1994 Excavation of 10 early medieval ringforts in Poland (Masovia) (with Polish Academy of Science Warsaw)

1996 Topola (Bulgaria): early medieval cemetery (with Sofia university)

1997-2003 German-Bulgarian Excavation in Pliska, the first early medieval capital of Bulgaria (with Bulgarian Academy of Science Sofia).

since 2004 German-Slovakian ringfort program: excavations and field surveys in Majcichov, Pobedim, Bratislava and Bina (Slovakian Academy of Science, Nitra)

since 2006 Archaeological joint research program: „The Carolingian fiscus of Snellegem, Belgium“ (with Harvard University, Free University Brussels et al.)

since 2008 Excavations in DECEMPAGOS/Tarquimpol (Lorraine) with Harvard and Cologne University (et al.)

Graduate studies / theses:

1. - Stätten von Handwerk und Gewerbe im bulgarischen Donaugebiet vom 3. bis 7. Jh. u. Z., B.A. thesis (Berlin: Humboldt-Universität 1975) 118 pp.

2. - Studien zur Keramikproduktion im Donau-Karpaten-Raum in der Spätantike und im frühen Mittelalter auf der Grundlage von Werkstattbefunden, Master thesis (Berlin: Humboldt-Universität 1976) 217 pp.

3. - Untersuchungen zur Entwicklung der Landwirtschaft in Südosteuropa im Übergang von der Spätantike zum frühen Mittelalter, PhD thesis (Berlin: Academy of Sciences 1982) 591 pp.

4. - Von der Römerzeit zum Frühmittelalter: Wirtschaftsarchäologische Quellen zu ökonomischen Wurzeln und technischer Basis der Grundherrschaft in West- und Mitteleuropa, Habilitation thesis (Berlin: Freie Universität 1994), 780 pp.

(see „books“ No.1 & „articles“ No. 4, 7, 18, 22, 26, 64, 67, 91)