Dr.
Michaela Schauer
- Responsible for Late Neolithic to Middle Bronze Age Collection
- Specialist for Portable X-Ray Fluorescence Analysis (p-XRF)
- Specialist for Pottery
- Coordination of Archaeometric Research
Awarded:
2023 - 2026: ESP
476 - Standardising portable X-Ray fluorescence for archaeometry
2025: AI-Assisted
Full-Spectrum p-XRF Analysis: A New Approach to Decoding Graphite Provenance (with Mag.
Dr. Georg Tiefengraber)
Involved:
Since
2023: New
archaeological research at Assur
2024: From
Sealings to Satellites: A Multidisciplinary Quest for Tarhuntassa
2023: KALAM – Analysis,
protection and development of archaeological landscapes in Irak and Uzbekistan through ICTs and community-based approaches
2020-2023: Iranian Highlands –
Resiliences and Integration in Premodern Societies: The unexplored Heartland: Institutional Landscapes and Networks in Eastern
Fārs
2017-2020: PARADISE – Achaemenid
residences and their "paradises": Landscape archaeology between Persia and the Caucasus
2019: Neues Licht aus Pompeji
- Seit 2025 Scientific Researcher/Curator – Natural History Museum Vienna
- 2023-2026 Projektleitung/Senior Scientist – FWF ESPRIT-Project – Standardising portable X-ray Fluorescence for archaeometry at the Vienna Institute for Archaeological Science (VIAS)
- 2020-2023 Research assistant – SPP 2176;
DFG-Project Iranian Highlands – Resiliences and Integration
in Premodern Societies: The unexplored Heartland: Institutional Landscapes and Networks in Eastern Fārs
- Specialist for portable X-Ray Fluorescence (pXRF), material analysis
- 2017-2023
Research assistant – Department
of Cultural Sciences, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich
- Specialist for pXRF, Lecturer and hands-on training
- Responsible for pXRF projects including Prehistoric (pottery, sediments, metals), Historic (slag, metalls, glass beads), Near Eastern (pottery, sediments, obsidian, metals, lime stone) artefacts as well as objects from the Roman Provinces (Terra Sigillata Lamps) and Classical Archaeology (bronze lamps)
- 2017-2020 Research
assistant – DFG-Project PARADISE – Achaemenid
residences and their "paradises": Landscape archaeology between Persia and the Caucasus
- Spezialistin für p-RFA, head of finds, head of excavation
- 2017-2019 Senior Coordinator – Chartered Institute for Archaeologists
- Responsible for setting up a professional association for archaeology in Germany
- 2010-2018 Head of documentation, site director and site supervisor – Archäologisches Büro Anzenberger und Leicht
- 2014-2017 Tutoress – Prehistoric Archaeology, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich
- 2014-2015 Research Assistant – Archaeological State Collection Munich
Education:
- 2016-2023 Doctor of Philosophy - Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich
- Prehistoric archaeology. Viva on 10th Feb. 2023 (summa cum laude)
- Thesis: La Hoguette - culture, subculture, phenomenon? New archaeological studies and portable, energy-dispersive X-ray fluorescence analyses (P-ED-XRF) on pottery addressing a long-standing question
- 2015–2016 Training in business studies and law – Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich
- 2014–2015 Master of Arts - Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich
- Prehisotric Archaeology
- Thesis: Studies on typologies of hatchets, adzes and axes. A test on applicability and validity
- 2013-2014 Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel
- Prehistoric and Historic Archaeology
- 2010–2013 Bachelor of Arts – Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich
- Archaeology and comparative cultural/religion studies
- Thesis: Studies on the early neolithic between western Germany and southern France. Late hunter-gatherers and early farmers in Provence and Languedoc
2024: Excavation at Mitterdorf im Mürztal
2023: Survey and Geophysics in the Sherabad-plain (Uzbekistan) & Isin (Iraq)
2018-2022: Survey and Excavation in Kakheti - Didi Gora, Gumbati, Murakebi, Saaklemo (Georgia)
2013-2018: Survey and Excavation at Karacamirli (Aserbaidschan)
2010-2018: Variety of Excavations in Bavaria
2016: Survey and Excavation at Karwendel & Survey at Orgame (Rumänien)
Awards:
2025: HEAS
Workshop Funding (3.000 €)
2024: Phillipikapreis
2023 of the Harrassowitz-Verlags & HEAS Workshop Funding (3.000 €)
2023: Dissertation
award of the Department of Cultural Studies of the LMU Munich (1.000 €)
2019: Funding of the ArchaeoBioCenters of the LMU Munich for pXRF studies in the scope of the PhD (1.500
€)
2015: Graduation as part of the best 10% of master graduates
Netzwerke & Vereine:
Seit 2025: Member of Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Ur- und Frühgeschichte (ÖGUF)
Seit 2024: Initiator and Coordinator of the Global pXRF network GopXRF.Net & Member of the Editorial Board of Scientific Culture
Seit 2019: Member of Coalition for Archaeological Synthesis (CfAS)
Seit 2017: Ordinary
Committee Member of Deutschen Gesellschaft für Ur- und Frühgeschichte (DGUF) & Member of European Association
for Archaeologists (EAA)
2018-2024: Voluntary President of
the german branch of the international professional association Chartered Institute for Archaeologist (Deutschland)
