Roland FilzwieserRoland Filzwieser
roland.filzwieser@univie.ac.at
Education
Doctor of Philosophy (Dr phil.) – 10.12. 2018 – with a dissertation specialising in History, Institute of Austrian Historical Research at the University of Vienna
- Awarded with the “Barbara-Scholkmann-Nachwuchsförderpreis für Historische Archäologie Tübingen 2020“
Bachelor of Arts (BA) – 12.5. 2010 – in Scandinavian Studies, Institute for Scandinavian Studies at the University of Vienna
Master of Philosophy (Mag. phil.) – 14.4. 2010 – in History, Institute of Austrian Historical Research at the University of Vienna
ERASMUS – 2008 – with focus on the Viking Age, runology and old norse at the University of Oslo
2002 – 2006: Master’s studies in History, Institute of History at the University of Graz
Positions
January 2024 – present: Senior Scientist at the Vienna Institute for Archaeological Science (VIAS), University of Vienna
2023: Principal Investigator at the Vienna Institute for Archaeological Science (VIAS), University of Vienna for the project bITEM “Beyond the Item. Biographies and Itineraries of Cultural Heritage Objects in Museums and beyond” (GD3.0_2021-17_bITEM)
2023: Principal Investigator for the project DeVill “Deserted Villages. Die Digitalisierung des Wüstungsarchivs der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Mittelalterarchäologie” under supervision of Mag. Dr. Gabriele Scharrer-Liška
July 2023: Principal Investigator at the Natural History Museum Vienna for the project bITEM “Beyond the Item. Biographies and Itineraries of Cultural Heritage Objects in Museums and beyond” (GD3.0_2021-17_bITEM)
2011 – 2023: Researcher at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Archaeological Prospection and Virtual Archaeology (LBI ArchPro)
2022 – 2023: Leadership of TerraProspect the division for geophysics at Novetus GmbH
2022: Researcher at the Aerial Archive of the Department of Prehistoric and Historical Archaeology, University of Vienna
2019 – 2020: Researcher at the Natural History Museum Vienna for the project THANADOS “The Anthropological and Archaeological Database of Sepultures” under supervision of Mag. Dr. Stefan Eichert and funded by the Austrian Academy of Sciences
2012 – 2013: Project member on the project “The Eastern Alps revisited – Continuity and Change from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages” under supervision of Mag. Dr. Stefan Eichert and funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
2012: Project member on the project “Harbours in the North Atlantic (800-1300 AD)” under supervision of Prof. Dr. Natascha Mehler and funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
2011 – 2019: Participation in various research projects and teaching excavations of the Department of Prehistoric and Historical Archaeology, University of Vienna
Awards
Awarded with the “Barbara-Scholkmann-Nachwuchsförderpreis für Historische Archäologie Tübingen 2020” by the Department of Medieval Archaeology of the University of Tübingen and the Association for the Promotion of Medieval Archaeology Schloss Hohentübingen on 3 May 2020
Funding
Acquisition of third-party funding for the research project bITEM “Beyond the Item. Biographies and Itineraries of Cultural Heritage Objects in Museums and beyond” (GD3.0_2021-17_bITEM) funded in the amount of € 214,258.00 by the “Go!Digital 3.0” Call 2021/22 of the Austrian Academy of Sciences for the funding of research projects in the field of Digital Humanities.
Substantial involvement in the acquisition of third-party funds for the digitisation project DeVill “Deserted Villages. Die Digitalisierung des Wüstungsarchivs der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Mittelalterarchäologie” under supervision of Dr. Gabriele Scharrer-Liška and funded by the Federal Ministry of Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sports (BMKÖS) and the EU programme “NextGenerationEU”
Reviewing
Desk reviewer for the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), reviewer for Antiquity (Cambridge University Press), reviewer for Archaeometry (Wiley), reviewer for Archaeological Prospection (Wiley), reviewer for Historical Archaeology (Springer Nature), reviewer for Land (MDPI), reviewer for Beiträge zur Mittelalterarchäologie in Österreich (BMÖ), member of the reviewer board of Remote Sensing (MDPI)
Translations
Translation of the scientific monograph “Das Tuneschiff – Dokumentation und Rekonstruktion” by Knut Paasche, from Norwegian into German. Submitted for publication in the Yearbook of the Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz.
Other Skills
Language skills: German (native speaker), English (C1), Norwegian (B2-C1), Danish/Swedish (B1-B2 passive), Old Norse (A2 passive)
Driving licences: A, B, B+E, skipper licence (up to 10 m) for waterways and inland waters, Boat Skipper Croatia (category B)
IT skills: Very good knowledge of QGIS, ArcGIS Pro and ArcMap, the database software OpenAtlas and the software ApSoft (ApMag/ApRadar) for processing geophysical data, knowledge of various programming languages such as JavaScript, HTML 5 and CSS, good knowledge of Agisoft Metashape and various word processing and image editing programmes such as GIMP, LaTeX or Microsoft Office.
