Nørlund Christensen, Asger (Dr.)
Asger Nørlund Christensen is a Danish historian, who did his master at Aarhus University in 2013 and successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation in September 2019 at the University of Southern Denmark. In his early carrier he sailed as a deckhand and later as mate and skipper on several traditional sailing ships, just as he has worked with the restoration of traditional craft.
Öğüt, Birgül MA (MA)
Birgül Öğüt studied Near Eastern Archaeology at the Ludwig-Maximilian University (LMU) in Munich. She is currently completing her doctorate at the Freie Universität (FU) Berlin on the macrostone implements from the Aenolithic occupation of Monjukli Depe.
Ohlrau, René (Dr.)
René Ohlrau is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Excellence Cluster ROOTS at Kiel University. He obtained his Master of Arts in 2014 at Kiel University for analysing the renewed geomagnetic survey of Trypillia ‘mega-sites’. During his PhD-studies between 2014 and 2018 at the Graduate School ‘Human development in landscapes’, he was involved in the excavations at the ‘mega-site’ near Maidanets’ke conducted by the CRC1266 ‘Scales of Transformation’.
Olthof, Dorothee (Drs.)
Dorothee Olthof is archeoloog, afgestudeerd aan de Universiteit van Leiden. Na enkele jaren graven in drassige polders heeft ze haar aandacht verlegd naar de publieksarcheologie. Met PRAE, haar bureau voor archeologie en publiek, brengt zij het verleden op vele manieren onder de aandacht van een groot publiek. Zij verzorgt lessen op scholen, leskisten, lezingen en workshops voor jong en oud, tentoonstellingen, levende geschiedenis in musea en op historische evenementen.
Oras, Ester (Dr.)
Ester Oras (1984) is a researcher at the departments of archaeology and analytical chemistry at the University of Tartu in Estonia. Her main fields of interest cover archaeochemistry with a special emphasis on biomolecular analyses and dating methods, material culture studies, archaeology of ritual and religion, hoard finds and other intentional artefact concealments in the Baltic Sea region. She graduated from the University of Cambridge in 2014 with her PhD thesis “Practices of wealth depositing in the 1st–9th century AD eastern Baltic”.
Ostapkowicz, Joanna (Dr.)
Joanna Ostapkowicz is Research Associate in Caribbean Archaeology at the School of Archaeology, University of Oxford. Her research focuses on bringing a wide span of analytical techniques to better understand the chronological range, materials and provenance of Caribbean artefacts in museum collections. She has been Principal Investigator on several international, multi-disciplinary research projects that focus on Caribbean sculpture and bridge the arts and sciences, including Pre-Hispanic Caribbean Sculptural arts in Wood (supported by the Getty Foundation and British Academy), Black Pitch, Carved Histories: Prehistoric wood sculpture from Trinidad’s Pitch Lake (the Arts and Humanities Research Council [AHRC], UK) and SIBA: Stone Interchanges in the Bahama Archipelago (AHRC).
Ott, Konrad (Prof. Dr.)
Konrad Ott is a full professor for environmental philosophy and ethics at Kiel University. He wrote a PhD thesis on the origins and the discursive logic of scientific history. His current fields of research are environmental ethics, climate ethics, sustainability, nature conservation, discourse theory, and philosophy of history. Konrad Ott is a PI of the Reflective Turn Forum of the ROOTS Cluster of Excellence.
Nørlund Christensen, Asger (Dr.)
Asger Nørlund Christensen is a Danish historian, who did his master at Aarhus University in 2013 and successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation in September 2019 at the University of Southern Denmark. In his early carrier he sailed as a deckhand and later as mate and skipper on several traditional sailing ships, just as he has worked with the restoration of traditional craft.
Öğüt, Birgül MA (MA)
Birgül Öğüt studied Near Eastern Archaeology at the Ludwig-Maximilian University (LMU) in Munich. She is currently completing her doctorate at the Freie Universität (FU) Berlin on the macrostone implements from the Aenolithic occupation of Monjukli Depe.
Ohlrau, René (Dr.)
René Ohlrau is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Excellence Cluster ROOTS at Kiel University. He obtained his Master of Arts in 2014 at Kiel University for analysing the renewed geomagnetic survey of Trypillia ‘mega-sites’. During his PhD-studies between 2014 and 2018 at the Graduate School ‘Human development in landscapes’, he was involved in the excavations at the ‘mega-site’ near Maidanets’ke conducted by the CRC1266 ‘Scales of Transformation’.
Olthof, Dorothee (Drs.)
Dorothee Olthof is archeoloog, afgestudeerd aan de Universiteit van Leiden. Na enkele jaren graven in drassige polders heeft ze haar aandacht verlegd naar de publieksarcheologie. Met PRAE, haar bureau voor archeologie en publiek, brengt zij het verleden op vele manieren onder de aandacht van een groot publiek. Zij verzorgt lessen op scholen, leskisten, lezingen en workshops voor jong en oud, tentoonstellingen, levende geschiedenis in musea en op historische evenementen.
Oras, Ester (Dr.)
Ester Oras (1984) is a researcher at the departments of archaeology and analytical chemistry at the University of Tartu in Estonia. Her main fields of interest cover archaeochemistry with a special emphasis on biomolecular analyses and dating methods, material culture studies, archaeology of ritual and religion, hoard finds and other intentional artefact concealments in the Baltic Sea region. She graduated from the University of Cambridge in 2014 with her PhD thesis “Practices of wealth depositing in the 1st–9th century AD eastern Baltic”.
Ostapkowicz, Joanna (Dr.)
Joanna Ostapkowicz is Research Associate in Caribbean Archaeology at the School of Archaeology, University of Oxford. Her research focuses on bringing a wide span of analytical techniques to better understand the chronological range, materials and provenance of Caribbean artefacts in museum collections. She has been Principal Investigator on several international, multi-disciplinary research projects that focus on Caribbean sculpture and bridge the arts and sciences, including Pre-Hispanic Caribbean Sculptural arts in Wood (supported by the Getty Foundation and British Academy), Black Pitch, Carved Histories: Prehistoric wood sculpture from Trinidad’s Pitch Lake (the Arts and Humanities Research Council [AHRC], UK) and SIBA: Stone Interchanges in the Bahama Archipelago (AHRC).
Ott, Konrad (Prof. Dr.)
Konrad Ott is a full professor for environmental philosophy and ethics at Kiel University. He wrote a PhD thesis on the origins and the discursive logic of scientific history. His current fields of research are environmental ethics, climate ethics, sustainability, nature conservation, discourse theory, and philosophy of history. Konrad Ott is a PI of the Reflective Turn Forum of the ROOTS Cluster of Excellence.
