Biz Kimiz

Director, Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED) & Professor, ARHA, Koç University, Istanbul, TR

PhD 2003 History of Art and Archaeology & MA 1997 Archaeology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY USA

BA Geology & Classics, Colby College, Maine USA

Archaeological Practice • Spatial Analysis • Landscape

Chris directs holistically the scope of research within an extremely broad and interdisciplinary agenda with Gygaia Projects.  

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4302-4788

Associate Professor, ARHA, Koç University, Istanbul, TR

Editor, Journal of Field Archaeology 

PhD 2002 Anthropology, Cornell University, Ithaca NY USA

BA Anthropology,, Scripps College for Woman, Claremont CA USA

Heritage • Diplomacy •  Gastronomy

For Gygaia Projects, Christina assists with holistic research design, whilst her personal foci integrate natural and cultural heritage through archaeology, socio-political ecologies, food, and hypermodernity. 

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0979-2510

PhD Candidate, ARHA Koç University, Istanbul, TR 

BA & MA Protohistory and Near Eastern Archaeology Ege University, Izmir, TR

Ceramics & Energetics • Data Science • Visual Representation

With Gygaia Projects, Tunç manages KAP administration, material processing, establishing the ceramic chronology, databases, and engages with the born-digital excavation program. 

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7261-9919

Research Manager, ANAMED, Koç University, Istanbul, TR

⁠PhD Candidate in Heritage, University of Antwerp, Belgium

⁠MA Prehistoric Archaeology, BA Archaeology, Istanbul University, Istanbul, TR

Landscape Archaeology • Data Science • Design & Exhibition

Duygu explores potentials for research and heritage management bringing together digital datasets in ways that make them both human and machine readable as well as reusable.

⁠ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4893-1723

PhD 2023 ARHA, Koç University, Istanbul TR

Metallurgy • Materiality • Geophysics  

For Gygaia Projects Dalila has been a trench supervisor for excavation, engaged with the Geophysics, and honed her expertise on metallurgy and materiality.

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2363-0887

Lecturer in the History of Science and Citizenship (History), University of Exeter, UK 

PhD 2017 History & Civilization, European University Institute, Florence/Fiesole, IT

Environmental history • Ottoman Archives • Natural History 

Semih’s interests include environmental historiographies of broadscale landscape change as well as a developing interest in museums. His expertise in Ottoman archives gives him unprecedented expertise on the power of Ottoman records to inform current and future policies preservation and wise-use management for wetlands in Türkiye and beyond.

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8228-4056

Researcher, Institute of Archaeology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, CZ 

PhD 2016 Archaeology, Comenius University, Bratislava, CZ

Data Science • Archaeology • Efficiency and Utility 

Peter’s foci cover the applications for data science to improve efficiency, accuracy, and utility of material recording methods and analyses for archaeology. His KAP contributions include his design of the Laser-Aided Profiler (along with its associated semi-automated typology software), radiocarbon data and RAMSES – Ultra-trace isotope research in social and environmental studies using accelerator mass spectrometry.

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1589-4727

PhD 2022 Department of Archaeology, Boston University, Massachusetts, USA

MS 2010 Settlement Archaeology, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, TR

Urbanism and Architecture • Socio-Spatial Organization • Lydian Archaeology

Güzin specializes in urbanism and settlement organization in Lydia during the Bronze and Iron Ages. She has been conducting electrical resistance surveys at Kaymakçı since 2013 to explore the urban layout and sprawl of the site. Güzin is also a long-term member of the Sardis Expedition, where she investigates lesser-known Early Lydian dynasties by analysis of their elite building complexes and material assemblages.

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5638-5980

PhD candidate, Institute of Classical Archaeology, Charles University, Prague, CZ

MA 2023, Classical Archaeology, Charles University, Prague, CZ

Ceramics • Use-Alteration Analysis • Food-Consumption Patterns

Ján’s research explores cooking and food consumption in the northern Aegean and western Anatolia from the perspective of pottery. He focuses particularly on the functions of cooking and table pottery through a combination of morphological and use-alteration analyses. His previous work examined zoomorphic plastic decorations on pottery from western Anatolia.

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-8764-8193

PhD Candidate, Institute of Classical Archaeology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University

Bronze Age Western Anatolia • Use-wear • Ground Stones

Kristina’s research is focused on the study of ground stones, with a particular emphasis on the analysis of use-wear and provenance. Her doctoral research project is focused on the investigation of the life cycle of grinding stones originating from the central region of western Anatolia.

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-4100-6339

PhD Candidate (Archaeology), University of Melbourne, Australia

Bronze Age Mediterranean Archaeology • Scripts and Administration • Digital Archaeology

Emily works as a field archaeologist and trench supervisor at KAP, as well as assisting the 3D spatial team. Her PhD research focuses on Bronze Age Aegean administration, particularly the use of digital methods including photogrammetry, shape analysis, and machine learning to analyze Minoan and Mycenaean administrative material.

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5212-1427

PhD Candidate, Department of Archaeology and History of Art, Koç University, Istanbul, TR

Elena’s PhD research explores the political dimensions of archaeology and heritage in the Middle East following World War II. Her experience also incorporates the application of scientific methods, such as isotope analysis, and the use of GIS in archaeological research.

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4526-0669

PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Georgia, Athens, USA

BA 2022 Archaeology and History of Art, Koç University

Zooarchaeology • Data Science & Visualization • Landscape Archaeology 

Tuğçe is a broadly trained zooarchaeologist and her PhD research explores KAP data – especially deer (red, roe and fallow) – and ecologies of landscape through archaeological context and isotope analyses. She has an expanding focus on iconography and ritual as well as the visual presentation of data.

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-0633-1013

PhD Candidate, Institute of Classical Archaeology, Charles University, Prague, CZ

Archaeological Institute of the Academy of Sciences in Prague

Bronze Age • Pottery • Settlement patterns

Kristina’s research is centered on the archaeology of the Aegean region in the Bronze Age, with a particular emphasis on material culture (predominantly ceramic finds) and settlement patterns. Kristina has been involved in the international archaeological project at Kaymakçı since 2014. The current focus of her research is on pottery and its processing, with particular interest in large storage vessels.

ORCID:https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8194-3040

BA Candidate, Archaeology and History of Art / History, Koç University, Istanbul, TR

Digital Archaeology • Geospatial Technologies • Photogrammetry

Ufuk is interested in digital archaeology. His involvement in KAP focuses on visualizing archaeological data through photogrammetry and geographical information systems (GIS). He is engaged in research on understanding functional areas through 3D GIS, incorporating various archaeological data. He is also part of Koç University ANAMED’S “Linking Anatolian Pasts” (LAP) project, working on historical landscape modeling.