Integration and workflow framework for virtual visualisation of cultural heritage. Revisiting the tell of Çukuriçi Höyük, Turkey

Studied Archaeology (2005-2011) and Art History (2007-2016) at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Since 2012 a PhD student of Heritology at University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.2013–2014 researcher at the Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Arts,University of Ljubljana (Slovenia).2013–2015 researcher and 3D artist at 7reasons Medien GmbH, Vienna (Austria). Since 2015 researcher at theDepartment ofArchaeological Interpretation, Spatial Analysis and Virtual Archaeology atLudwig Boltzmann Institute for Archeological Prospection and Virtual Archaeology, Vienna (Austria).

Studies of Prehistory and Protohistory as well as Classical Archeology at the Universities of Vienna, Athens and Berlin. Graduation with “Summa cum laude” at the Freie Universität Berlin in 2005, subsequently holder of the travel grant of the German Archaeological Institute (2005/06). Awarded with the FWF START prize in 2010 as well as an ERC Starting Grant in 2011. 2011–2012 Director of the Young Curia of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW). Since June 2013 Director of the Institute for Oriental and European Archeology (OREA) at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna. 2015 awarding of an honorary professorship at the University of Tübingen in the field of Prehistory and Protohistory. Since 2015 Corresponding Member of the Division of Humanities and the Social Sciences of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and since 2016 Corresponding Member of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI). (Co-)Editor of the journal Archaeologia Austriaca as well as of the series Mitteilungen der Prähistorischen Kommission (MPK), Mykenische Studien and Oriental and European Archaeology (OREA). Head of excavations, surveys and material culture studies in Turkey, Greece and the Balkans.

Originally studied Design at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, in the early1990ties he shifted his focus to 3d Modelling and Animation.

He is a founder and CTO of 7reasons GmbH, Vienna. Beside classical media production, the company is specialised in visualising and explaining research results in exhibitions, documentaries, print and interactive media, as well as the development of robust hardware for use in public areas like museums, exhibitions, and the point of sale.Some of his projects involve Naturhistorisches Museum (NHM) Vienna, archaeological park Carnuntum, the Virgil chapel in Vienna, all in Austria, and Haus der Geschichte Bonn, Germany.

Involved in the following EU Projects: Four-dimensional Cultural Heritage World (4D CH World, FP 7)), the Marie Curie International Training Network (ITN) Digital Cultural Heritage (DCH) (FP 7), and ViMM Virtual Multimodal Museum (Horizon 2020).

StudiedPre-andEarlyHistory at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (2006–2011) and the Ruprecht-Karls University Heidelberg (2011–2016). 2012–2016 research assistant in the ERC project "Prehistoric Anatolia" at the Austrian Archaeological Institute, Vienna and respectively at the Institute for Oriental and European Archeology (OREA) at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna. 2016–2019 research assistant at OREA. April to October 2019 PostDoc at Curt-Engelhorn-Zentrum Archäometrie gGmbh (CEZA), Mannheim. Since October 2019 PostDoc and active leader of the research group 'Prehistoric Phenomena' at OREA.