Dr Ioannis (Giannis) Apostolou
BA, MSt, PhD
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow from 2025
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.
- PhD in Classical Archaeology, Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology (ICAC) – University Rovira i Virgili (URV), Tarragona, Spain (from 2020 to 2025)
- MSt in Classical Archaeology, University of Oxford, (from 2017 to 2018)
- BA in Archaeology and History of Art, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), Thessaloniki, Greece (from 2013 to 2017)
- Landscape archaeology
- Artificial intelligence
- Geoarchaeology
- Archaeological survey
- GIS modelling
- Socio-environmental interactions
- 2024 Apostolou, G., Venieri, K., Mayoral, A., Dimaki, S., Garcia-Molsosa, A., Georgiadis, M. and Orengo, H. A. Long-term settlement dynamics in ancient Macedonia: A new multi-disciplinary survey from Grevena (NW Greece), in Land 13(11): 1769. https://doi.org/10.3390/land13111769
- 2024 Apostolou, G., Mayoral, A., Venieri, K., Dimaki, S., Garcia-Molsosa, A., Georgiadis, M. and Orengo, H. A. Holocene alluvial dynamics, soil erosion and settlement in the uplands of Macedonia (Greece): New geoarchaeological insights from Xerolakkos in Grevena, in Quaternary Science Advances 15: 100206. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qsa.2024.100206
- 2024 Apostolou, G., Venieri, K., Mayoral, A., Dimaki, S., Garcia-Molsosa, A., Georgiadis, M. and Orengo, H. A. Integrating legacy survey data into GIS-based analysis: The rediscovery of the archaeological landscapes in Grevena (Western Macedonia, Greece), in Archaeological Prospection 31(1): 37–52. https://doi.org/10.1002/arp.1926
- 2024 Apostolou, G., Dimaki, S., Georgiadis, M., Garcia-Molsosa, A. and Orengo, H. A. Surface survey and digital archaeology in action: The case of Grevena, in Y. Chatzikonstantinou (ed.) ARCHAEOZOOMS: Aspects and Potentials of Modern Archaeological Research. Propylaeum, Heidelberg University Library: 154–183. https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.1319.c19010
- 2024 Mayoral, A., Ejarque, A., Garcia-Molsosa, A., Georgiadis, M., Apostolou, G., Gaertner, V., Kallintzi, C., Kefalidou, E., and Orengo, H. A. A city against the current: A reconstruction of Holocene sea-level changes and the evolution of coastal landscapes in ancient Abdera (Thrace, Gr.), in Catena 235: 107638. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2023.107638
Links:
- The Richard Bradford McConnell Fund for Landscape Studies, The British School at Athens. (2025)
- Doctoral Research Scholarship, The A.S. Onassis Foundation (2022 to 2024)
- New Doctoral Researcher Scholarship (FI), R&D Agency Competitive Call for the Recruitment of New Research Staff (AGAUR), Catalan Government – Generalitat (2020 to 2024)
- Doctoral Educational Scholarship, The A. G. Leventis Foundation (2020 to 2023)
- Fieldwork Bursary Award, The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies – The British School at Athens (2018)
- Travel Award for the International Autumn School ‘Economic landscapes and their natural and social interdependence in precapitalist societies’, Berlin, The Berlin Graduate School of Ancient Studies (BerGSAS) (2018)
- Matti Egon I Scholarship, The Greek Archaeological Committee U.K. (GACUK) (2017 to 2018)
- Graduate Research Grant, The Thomas Braun Fund, Merton College, Oxford (2017)
- Social Working Scholarship for Undergraduate Students, The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2016)