Professor, “Sylvia Ioannou” Chair on Digital Humanities, University of Cyprus

asarri01[at]ucy.ac[dot]cy

Apostolos Sarris is Professor of the “Sylvia Ioannou” Chair on Digital Humanities at the Archaeological Research Unit, Department of History and Archaeology, University of Cyprus and Director of the DigHumanities GeoInformatics Lab. He obtained his B.A. in Astronomy and Physics and his M.A. in Physics from Boston University, to continue his M.Sc. and Ph.D. at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA (1992). He is an Adjunct/Affiliate Professor of Cyprus University of Technology and a Research Associate of the Dept. of Anthropology, the Field Museum of Natural History of Chicago, Illinois, USA. He has been Research Director at F.O.R.T.H. - Head of the GeoSat ReSeArch Lab (1996-2019), a Senior MC Fellow at Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS)/Freiburg University, a DLR (German Aerospace Center)-DAAD Research Fellow and a visiting senior researcher at the University of Leiden. He has been a contracted Lecturer at the University of Aegean, The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the University of Crete, the Technological Educational Institute of Crete, and the University of Maryland. His research is focused on Geophysical Prospection, GIS spatial modeling and satellite remote sensing (260 projects in Greece, U.S.A., Cyprus, Hungary, Albania, Germany, Italy, Turkey, Serbia, Israel and Egypt). He is a corresponding member of the German Archeological Institute and member of ISAP, UISPP, CAA, EAA and SAA.

Digital Humanities GeoInformatics Laboratory website: https://ucyweb.ucy.ac.cy/geoinfolab/

Research interests

• Applied Shallow Depth Geophysics & Remote Sensing.
• Application on Digital Heritage, spatial modeling, networking, Geodatabases
• Integrated Shallow Depth Geophysical Prospection. Signal Processing, mapping and modelling.
• Site Assessment & Spatial analysis and modeling through the application of Satellite Remote Sensing and Geographical Information Systems (G.I.S.).
• Satellite image processing and classification techniques.
• Landscape Archaeology, Spatial History, Digital Humanities.
• Digital archaeological maps. Cultural Resources Management (CRM). Web_GIS applications.
• Environmental research. Development Strategies.
• Bridging the gap between Innovative Technologies and Cultural Studies.

Select publications

Küçükdemirci, M. and Sarris, A. 2022. GPR Data Processing and Interpretation Based on Artificial Intelligence Approaches: Future Perspectives for Archaeological Prospection. Remote Sensing 2022, 14, 3377. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14143377

Vella, M.-A. & Sarris, A. 2022. Geophysical survey in archaeological context: A review from Cyprus. Archaeological Prospection,1–34.https://doi.org/10.1002/arp.1856

Manzetti, M. C., & Sarris, A. 2021. A Methodological Approach for Intra – Site Analysis of Prehistoric Settlements. Studies in Digital Heritage, 5(2), 88–106. doi.org/10.14434/sdh.v5i2.32980

Sarris. A., 2020. Processing and analyzing Geophysical Data. In Archaeological Spatial Analysis: A Methodological Guide, ed. by Mark Gillings, Piraye Hacıgüzeller and Gary Lock, 1st Edition (January 29, 2020), Routledge, pp. 376-407, ISBN 9780815373230 - CAT# K338400.

Driessen, J. & Sarris, A. 2020. Archaeology and Geophysics in Tandem on Crete, Journal of Field Archaeology, v. 45 (8):571-587, DOI: 10.1080/00934690.2020.1826749

Dabas, M., Campana, St. and Sarris, A. (Eds.). 2020. Mapping the Past – From Sampling Sites and Landscapes to Exploring the “Archaeological Continuum”, Proceedings of the XVIII UISPP World Congress (4-9 June 2018, Paris, France), Volume 8, Session VIII-1 Archaeopress Publishing Ltd., Oxford.

Sarris, A., Kalogiropoulou, E., Kalayci, T. & Karimali, L. (eds.), 2017. Communities, Landscapes, and Interaction in Neolithic Greece. Proceedings of International Conference, Rethymno 29-30 May 2015. Ann Arbor, MI: International Monographs in Prehistory. 2017.

Sarris, A., Kalayci, T. and Moffat, I., An Introduction to Geophysical Methods within Digital Geoarchaeology, in Digital Geoarchaeology - New Technologies for Interdisciplinary Human-Environmental Research, ed. By Christoph Siart, Markus Forbiger and Olaf Bubenzer, Springer series on 'Natural Sciences in Archaeology' (http://www.springer.com/series/3703)

Sarris, A. (ed), Best Practices of GeoInformatic Technologies for the Mapping of Archaeolandscapes. Archaeopress Archaeology, Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. England, Oxuniprint, Oxford. 2015. ISBN 9781784911621.

Schmidt, A., Linford, P., Linford, N., David, A., Gaffney, C., Sarris, A. & Fassbinder, J., EAC Guidelines for the use of Geophysics in Archaeology Questions to ask and points to consider, European Archaeologiae Concilium (EAC), 2015. Published by Europae Archaeologia Consilium (EAC), Association Internationale sans But Lucratif (AISBL), Archaeolingua, ISBN 978-963-9911-73-4