Wolfgang Thomas Gerhard Filser
Tenure Track Assistant Professor
SAXO-Institute - Archaeology, Ethnology, Greek & Latin, History
Karen Blixens Plads 8
2300 København S
Current position
Assistant professor (tenure track) of Classical Archaeology, The Saxo Institute
Directorship of the excavations and surveys of the Roman villae maritimae of Capo di Sorrento (Sorrento, Italy) and the Villa della Rampa (Sperlonga, Italy, from 2021)
Prizes, distinctions and awards
Winner of the Johannes-Zilkens-Award for outstanding doctoral theses of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (2014)
Doctoral thesis-scholarship of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (2009-2011)
Membership of Societies / Fellowships
Visiting professor at the Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli (2022)
Mommsengesellschaft (since 2013)
Deutscher Archäologischen-Verband (since 2013)
Archäologische Gesellschaft zu Berlin (since 2014)
Fieldwork
Survey and measurement campaigns of the Roman maritime villa of Capo di Sorrento, Lazio (since 2021)
Excavations and measurement campaigns of the Roman maritime villa of Capo di Sorrento, Naples (since 2014)
Archaeological survey in the hinterland of Matera (Basilicata) on the settlement mound of Timmari (DAI Rome – Universtià di Matera, 2009)
Excavations of the Roman Forum of Villa San Silvestro, Umbria (Università degli Studi di Perugia, 2008)(Università degli Studi di Perugia, 2007–2013(Università degli Studi di Perugia, 2007–2013)
Excavations in the sanctuary of Diana at Nemi, Lazio (Università degli Studi di Perugia, 2007–2013)Università degli Studi di Perugia
Excavations of the Greek Agora of Selinus, Sicily (DAI Rome, 2004–2006)
Former employment
Lecturer in archaeology at the Winckelmann Institute for Classical Archaeology of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (2013-2021)
Lecturer in archaeology at the Institute for Classical Archaeology of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich (2012-2013)
Education
Doctoral thesis at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (2010-2011, disputatio 2012)
Doctoral thesis in Classical Archaeology and Egyptology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich (2007-2011)
Magister of Arts in Classical Archaeology, Ancient History and Egyptology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, with longer study stays in Florence, Rome and Freiburg (2001-2007)
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