Faidon Moudopoulos-Athanasiou

Research topic during fellowship: The Sacred Groves of Northwest Greece: Bridging Landscape Archaeology and Environmental History

Faidon Moudopoulos-Athanasiou is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action (MSCA) Postdoctoral Researcher in the Computational Archaeology Research Group, part of the Computational Social Sciences and Humanities Program (CSSH) at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. His project, "Under the Forest," investigates the afforested archaeological landscape of the Zagori Cultural Landscape (UNESCO World Heritage) in northwestern Greece. Combining innovative remote sensing techniques with traditional archaeological methods, the project seeks to map the heritage and material culture hidden beneath forested mountainous landscapes.

Faidon holds a degree in History and Archaeology from the University of Crete (2013) and an MA in Aegean Archaeology from the University of Sheffield (2014), focusing on Bronze Age archaeology and the ethnoarchaeology of Epirus. In 2016, he completed a second MA in Heritage Management (University of Kent and Athens University of Economics and Business). In 2017, he was awarded a White Rose College of the Arts & Humanities (WRoCAH) / Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) doctoral scholarship at the University of Sheffield, where, with additional support from the A.G. Leventis Foundation, he completed a PhD (2021) in the archaeology of early modern Zagori. During this period, he contributed to the research team that prepared the technical report for Zagori's inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage List.

His research interests include landscape archaeology, archaeological theory, cultural heritage management, and Ottoman-era and historical archaeology.