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Department of Archaeology

 

Biography

I received my undergraduate degree in Landscape Archaeology with a specialization in GIS at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. Working with the Barcın Höyük excavation and UrbanOccupationsOETR projects during my graduate studies at Koç University (MA 2018) in Istanbul, I gained an interest in Computational Methods in Archaeological Research and Digital Humanities. Currently I am pursuing my PhD at the University of Glasgow in Geospatial Data Science focussing on Population and Transport Modelling using Historical Maps.

Research

Interested in Geo-information, Cartography, Geospatial Data Science and Data Visualisation for Archaeology and Digital Humanities Research.

Key Publications

Key publications

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  • The estimation of non-irrigated crop area and production using the regression analysis approach: A case study of Bursa Region (Turkey) in the mid-nineteenth centuryPLOS ONE

2021-04-30 | journal-article

Source:Crossref

  • A Preliminary Attempt to Construct a Geospatial, Multimodal Ottoman Transport Network for 1899Spatial Webs: Mapping Anatolian Pasts for Research and the Public

2021-01-01 | book-chapter

Source:Petrus Gerrits

  • Automatic Detection of Road Types From the Third Military Mapping Survey of Austria-Hungary Historical Map Series With Deep Convolutional Neural NetworksIEEE Access

2021 | journal-article

Source:Crossref

  • A Red Floor at Neolithic Barcın Höyük: Special or not?Metallurgica Anatolica: Festschrift für Ünsal Yalçın anlässlich seines 65. Geburtstags.

2020 | book-chapter

Source:Petrus Gerrits

  • Bridging the gap between pre-census and census era historical data: Devising a geo-sampling model to analyse agricultural production in the long run for southeast Europe, 1840-1897International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing

2020 | journal-article

Teaching and Supervisions

Teaching
  • July 2021 - Teaching Assistant, Applied GIS (GEOG5102): Practical session organizer and course assistant.
  • June 2021 - Teaching Assistant, Geospatial data infrastructures and land administration (GEOG5013): Practical session organizer and course assistant.  
  • September 2019 - Guest Lecturer, Material and Textual Evidence on Late Antique and
  • January 2020 - Urban Studies / ARHA 526, Description: MA course on the use of GIS and Story Maps to present academic work interactively online.
  • August 2018 - Lecturer WALADU Summer school, Description: teaching an introduction to GIS for archaeology course (Two-day course, part of a two week summer school).
  • August 2018 - Co-Lecturer KAVALA Summer school: Digital Explorations into the Entangled Eastern Mediterranean History. Description: One week training in digital and spatial applications for History and Archaeology (B.A. and M.A.) students.
  • 2015 - 2018 - Teaching and Research assistant at Koç University (for Prof. Roosevelt and Prof. Özbal). Teaching experience: Geographic Information Systems (GIS)/ARHA 467-567 (Teaching and Grading), Archaeological Method and Theory / ARHA 201. Research Assistant experience: Barçin Höyük Archaeological Information System development.

Other Professional Activities

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  • Data Science Volunteer at MapAction
  • Postgraduate Fellowship Royal Geographical Society

Job Titles

Research Assistant, McDonald Institute of Archaeological Research

General Info

Not available for consultancy
Research Expertise / Fields of study
Computational and Quantitative Archaeology
Environmental Archaeology, Geoarchaeology, and Landscape studies

Affiliations

Subjects
Archaeology
Themes
Science, Technology and Innovation
Environment, Landscapes and Settlement
Geographical areas
Mediterranean
Mesopotamia and the Near East
South Asia
Periods of interest
Other Historical