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Hon.-Prof. Dr. Nima Nezafati

Room: 306 (3. Etage DBM Räume)
Phone: 234 282538-32
Email: nima.nezafati@bergbaumuseum.de
Office hours: Please arrange a Meeting via E-Mail



Research Interest, Career and Projects
  •  Archaeological sciences, archaeometallurgy and materials science in archaeologyArchäologische Wissenschaften, Archäometallurgie und Werkstoffkunde in der Archäologie
  • Montanarchaeology and prehistoric metallurgy in West and Central Asia
  • Metallogenesis, geology of deposits and mineralogy (also in relation to archaeology)

 

  • since September 2023 Appointment as honorary professor at the Ruhr University Bochum (RUB)
  • since November 2020 Deputy Head of Research Department Archaeometallurgy, German Mining Museum Bochum
  • 2014 Research Semester at the University of Heidelberg and the German Mining Museum (Gerda Henkel Fellowship and Heinrich Winkelmann Fellowship)
  • 2007 bis 2020 Assistant Professor for Deposit Science at the Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran
  • 2007 Exploration geologist for the Iranian private sector
  • 2005 bis 2006 Dr. rer. nat. in Mineralogy (Deposit Science and Archaeometry) at the University of Tübingen (Scholarship of the Curt-Engelhorn Centre for Archaeometry)
  • 2001 bis2005 PhD Studies at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Deposit Science (Scholarhsip provided by the DAAD and Volkswagen-Stiftung)
  • 2000 - 2001 Exploration geologist for the Iranian private sector
  • 1997 - 2000 Masterstudies in Deposit Science at the Research Institute for Earth Sciences (Geological Survey of Iran), Tehran, Iran
  • 1993 - 1997 Bachelorstudies in Geology at the Faculty for Geoscience at the Shahid Beheshti Universität, Tehran, Iran
  • The Iranian highlands: Resiliencies and integration in pre-modern societies, seit 2020
  • International Association for Promoting Geoethics (IAPG, Iran-coordinator, 2019 bis 2021)
  • SILVER-ERC Advanced Grant, seit 2017
  • Chega Sofla Archaeological Project 2017 bis 2019
  • South of Baluchestan Archaeological Survey and Excavation 2016
  • South of Jiroft Iranian-German joint Archaeological Survey (iranisch-deutsches Partnerprojekt) 2015 bis 2020
  • Iran-Japan Archaeological Expedition to Arsanjan 2013
  • Chiya Sabz Ausgrabungen 2010
  • Tappeh Shoghali Ausgrabungen 2008 und 2015
  • Tappeh Sofalin Ausgrabungen 2007 bis 2011
  • Sialk Reconsideration Project at Tappeh Sialk (internationale Kooperation) 2003 bis 2006
  • Arisman-Projekt (iranisch-deutsches interdisziplinäres Partnerprojekt) 1999 bis 2002

 

 

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