Team

Nikolaos Arvanitis is the principal investigator of the project.

Alain Duplouy is Reader in Greek archaeology at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Educated in Brussels and in Paris, Alain has also been visiting scholar at the University of Leeds, at UCLA, at Harvard, and visiting professor at Columbia University. Alain is both an archaeologist and a historian of Ancient Greece. He has led archaeological fieldwork programs in Greece and in Italy, and has published extensively on elites and citizenship in archaic Greece. He is the author of Le Prestige des élites (2006) and Construire la cité (2019), which deal with the making of Greek elites and communities. He has edited with Roger Brock the collective volume Defining citizenship in archaic Greece (2018) and with Olivier de Cazanove the proceedings of the international conference La Lucanie entre deux mers. Archéologie et patrimoine (2019).

He is the scientific supervisor of the project.

Vincenzo Capozzoli is Lecturer in Digital archaeology at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Classical archaeologist, specialist in topography and ancient architecture. During his PhD study in Italy and Germany, he worked on the archaic and classical topography of Athens and in particular on the city wall.

Within the project, he is co-responsible for the implementation of the database concerning architecture and building techniques, as well for the following research sub-topic : "The urban demes and roads of Athens". He is also co-responsible for the divulgation of the scientific output and for the disclosure to the general public.

Dimitra Mazaraki studied History and Archaeology in Athens (BA, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) with specialty in prehistoric archaeology. She then graduated with a Ma in Cultural Heritage Studies (University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne). So far, she has participated in many excavations in Greece (Irakleia, Plasi, Palaiopolis, Sanctuary of the Egyptian Gods), as well as in many mediation projects of archaeological heritage in Athens and in Paris.

Within the project, she is the responsible for stratigraphical analyses, vectorisation and GIS of the demoi of east coast of Attica.

Anastasia Strousopoulou graduated from a MA in Archeology at Paris 1. As part of her BA in History, Archeology and Cultural Resource Management, she organized Kalamata’s candidacy as "Capital of European Culture for the Year 2021" at the Culture Center. She took part to various archaeological excavations in Greece.

Within the project, she is the responsible for stratigraphical analyses, vectorisation and GIS of the demoi of west coast of Attica.

Mariana Silva Porto is a PhD student at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and at the Humboldt University in Berlin, working within the Landscape Archaeology and Architecture program of the Berlin Graduate School of Ancient Studies, and is the recipient a doctoral scholarship from the DAAD. She graduated from the University of Glasgow and has master’s degrees from both the University of Cambridge and Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. She has worked on field projects in France, Cyprus and Italy. Her PhD project continues the work of the Lands of Meaning project by applying its methods and framework to the districts of Laurion (including Sounion), Marathon, Oropos and Salamis.

Classical archaeologist, specialist in Greek and Roman pottery, Jean-Sébastien completed his PhD at the universities of Thessaly and Montpellier (2007). He was a member of the French School of Athens (2008-2010) and worked for a while as a lecturer at Strasbourg University. Jean-Sébastien was head of the IT department at the British School at Athens from 2013 to 2017. He is now a part-time lecturer at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (EPHE) interested in digital humanity, mainly publishing and teaching geospatial archaeological data. Within the project he is a key person transmitting us, admittedly with much patience, his expertise on GIS projects as a friend.

Graduated in Archaeology from the Sapienza - Università di Roma, Vanessa collaborates to the project "Atlas of ancient Latium".  She is responsable for the geodatabase in ArcGis environment, for the archive, management and queries of the graphic and alphanumeric metadata related to the regions of ancient Latium. She is also the principal investigator of the in-depth analysis of the territories of Antium, Ostia and Ficana.

Within the project, she patiently helps us on the management of problems in GIS.