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Vangelis Samaras’ research focuses on the Aegean history and archaeology during the Postpalatial period and the Early Iron Age, long-term perspectives on landscape archaeology, settlement patterns, archaeological surface surveys, the history and archaeology of piracy, fortifications, and Archaic and Classical sculpture.

He is currently the principal investigator of the research project “From Archaeology of Piracy to Pirate Archaeology. Piracy in the Greek Seas from Prehistoric to Roman Times” (A.P.Pir.A.), hosted by the Department of History and Archaeology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and supported by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (H.F.R.I.) under the “2nd Call for H.F.R.I. Research Projects to support Post-Doctoral Researchers” (Project Number: 34).

From February 2020 to January 2022, he conducted the postdoctoral research “Nucleation versus Dispersion: The Settlement Pendulum as a Methodological Tool of Archaeological Research”, which was carried out at the Department of History and Archaeology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens under the supervision of Prof. Y. Papadatos. This research was co-financed by Greece and the European Union (European Social Fund-ESF) through the Operational Program “Human Resources Development, Education and Lifelong Learning” in the context of the project “Reinforcement of Postdoctoral Researchers-2nd Cycle” (MIS-5033021), implemented by the State Scholarship Foundation (IKY).

Since 2021, he is responsible for the intensive surface survey at Rheneia, as part of the Rheneia Archaeological Project (RAP), a collaborative project between the Cyclades’ Ephorate of Antiquities, the École française d’Athènes and the Archaeological Park of Pompeii, with the participation of members of the Scuola Superiore Meridionale, Università Federico II di Napoli. RAP is co-directed by Dr. D. Athanasoulis, Dr. Z. Papadopoulou, and Dr. M. Sigala (Cyclades’ Ephorate of Antiquities).

During 2021, he taught classical archaeology at the Crete Tour Guides’ School.

From 2018 to 2022, he conducted rescue excavations, as contract archaeologist and under the supervision of the Cyclades’ Ephorate of Antiquities, at Chora on Tenos (cemetery of Hellenistic and Roman times), at Lakkos-Kionia on Tenos (farmstead of Hellenistic and Roman times), and at Ornos on Mykonos (part of a building of Hellenistic and Roman times).

From 2018 to 2020, he participated as a team leader at intensive surface surveys at Kavo Sidero and at Ierapetra in Crete, under the direction of Prof. Y. Papadatos (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens).

From 2006 to 2018, he was member of the excavation team of the systematic excavation at Xobourgo on Tenos, under the direction of Em. Prof. N. Kourou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), and he has undertaken the study of a large part of the funerary marble monuments from the cemetery of the Classical polis of Tenos at the site “Vardalakos”.

His Ph.D. is from the Department of History and Archaeology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, where he wrote a dissertation, under the supervision of Em. Prof. N. Kourou, on settlement patterns in the Cyclades during the Postpalatial period and the Early Iron Age, with educational grant for doctoral studies from the A.G. Leventis Foundation.

He holds an MA in Prehistoric Archaeology (2008-2011) and a BA in Archaeology and History of Arts (2002-2007) from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

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