My research combines multi-disciplinary approaches in landscape archaeology integrating computational, analytical and groundtruthing strategies for the long-term understanding of human activity and socio-environmental interactions. My expertise includes 3D photogrammetric reconstructions and multi-source modelling of past landscapes, GIS-based survey and advanced geospatial analyses, particularly for the detection and evaluation of archaeological sites, land-use systems and environmental change. I actively foster international collaborations and have held research assistant positions in various archaeological projects in Greece and Spain, In my current position, I pursue questions concerning the emergence of the Macedonian Kingdom, focusing on key areas in northern Greece around Thessaloniki.

I am a theoretical physicist working on problems in classical and quantum statistical mechanics.

I want to understand the structure of equations that naturally appear in statistical physics describing the dynamics of particles, with the aim to shed light on the behaviour of solutions to these equations and to investigate the consistency of the physical model with its mathematical description.

Living things have a tendency to be ephemeral, and this is especially true for the large majority of cases where there aren’t bones or shells to be preserved in archaeological or geological contexts. Nonetheless, it is possible to study the genetic evolution of our more recent antecedents by analysing the DNA that was once part of the genome of the microbes, plants, from environmental substrates like soil, even when there are no physical remains present. Fragments of ancient DNA can be analysed from buried sediments, deep ice-cores and centuries-old layers of ambergris whale fecaliths (for example), as well as old bones, teeth and plant remains.  In my research, I’m particularly interested in how preserved DNA typically represents a diverse mixture of dead things: these DNA sequences are palimpsest of what’s left from all the varied life-forms that a sample might have come in contact with. For example, tooth samples can preserve both a person’s own DNA and that of the microbes that live in their mouth, while lake sediment cores can preserve DNA from the changing communities of plants and animals nearby over thousands of years. I’m particularly interested in developing approaches to integratedly study this information from across ecosystems changing through time. This focuses on how humans have disrupted ecosystems at vastly different scales, ranging from trans-continental terrestrial biomes to the commensal microbiomes within our mouths. I’m especially interested in the unintended consequences of this disruption, like outbreaks of diseases jumping from animals to humans (zoonoses)