Research Associates

Dr. Ofra Barkai

Archaeology

Dr. Maayan Cohen

Marine archaeology; Metallurgy

Dr. Meir Edrey

Phoenician Studies; Archaeology; Ancient Religion and Cult; Mediterranean Cultures and History

Dr. Joseph Eliav

Mediterranean Maritime History and Ships; Early-Modern Galleys (Engineering, Economical, Operational, Military, Political, Cultural and Social Aspects)

Dr. Shira Freeman

Submerged Neolithic villages; Shipwrecks and cargoes; Ports and anchorages; Salt production; Sea-level changes and coastal tectonics; Anchors; Fishing gear; Instruments and cultic objects used by mariners; Metal trade and metal cargoes

Dr. Matthieu Giaime

Geomorphology and chronostratigraphy of ancient harbors in deltaic environments; Morphosedimentary of coastal areas; Sea-level changes; Chronostratigraphic signature of Holocene risks and hazards

Dr. Oz Gofman

Marine Biology and Animal Behavior

Dr. Shira Gur-Arie

Microarchaeology

Dr. Tal Kan-Cipor – Meron

Archaeology; Archaeometallurgy; Metal artifacts; Social and Economic Aspects of the Middle Bronze Age; Maritime and Land Trade Routes; Metal Sources; Documentation and Research of Traditional and Ancient Technologies and Industries.

Dr. Dan Kerem

Marine Mammals; Marine Biology and Ecology in the Mediterranean and Red Sea; Comparative Diving Physiology

Dr. Zafrir Kuplik

Scyphozoans; Marine ecology

Dr. Ezra S. Marcus

Bronze Age Coastal Archaeology; Eastern Mediterranean Maritime Trade; the Middle Bronze Age; Middle Bronze Age Egyptian-Levantine relations; Ceramics; C14

Dr. Mario A. S. Martin

Egypto-Canaanite relations; Egyptian empire in the Levant in the New Kingdom; The political landscape of the Jezreel Valley in the Middle and Late Bronze Age; Middle and Late Bronze pottery; Middle and Late Bronze Mediterranean chronology; Late Bronze Mediterranean trade

Dr. Yoav Me-Bar

Terminal ballistics and transient phenomena; Maya culture and archaeology; Bronze-age in the Eastern Mediterranean; Modern Greek Poetry

Prof. Christophe Morhange

Harbor Geoarchaeology in the Mediterranean and the Black sea; RSL Bio-indicators; Sedimentology; Geomorphology

Dr. Alexandra Ratzlaff

Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology; Maritime Archaeology; Trade in Late Antiquity; Ceramics of the Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine Periods; Digital Humanities; Archaeological Ethics and Theory; Roman Army.

Dr. Mia Roditi-Elasar

Marine Sciences; Marine Ecology; Marine Mammals

Dr. Joel Roskin

Aeolian-Fluvial Interactions; Inland/Coastal Dunefield Evolution; Pleistocene-Holocene Transition; Holocene Dust Deposition; Landscape Evolution; Ancient Agriculture Agroecosystems; Anthrosols; Portable Luminescence (POSL) Profiling; Geoarchaeology; Military Geosciences; Underground Warfare