Curriculum Vitae

Personal data

Name:                                                            Sven Kalmring

Date of birth:                                              1976-01-02

Swedish personnummer:                     760102-****

Place of birth:                                             Hamburg

Civil status:                                                  married

Nationality:                                                  German

School education

1982–1986                                                 Grundschule Quellmoor, Hamburg

1986–1996                                                 Gymnasium Süderelbe, Hamburg

1996                                                                Abitur

Studies

1997–2002                                                  Studies in Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology, Classical Archaeology and

                                                                            European Ethnology at Kiel University

2000/2001                                                  Semester abroad at Lunds universitet, Sweden

2002                                                                Magister Artium (M.A.)

2008                                                                Doctor of Philosophy (Dr. phil.)

2019                                                                docent i arkeologi med laborativ inriktning (~ Assoc. Professor/Reader)

Language Skills                                         German, English, Swedish, French, Latin

Professional career

2003–2008                                                   Researcher in the project “High-Tech in Haithabu“ at the Archaeological State Museum (ALM),

                                                                             Schleswig

2008-2022                                                   Researcher at the Centre for Baltic and Scandinavian Archaeology (ZBSA), Schleswig

2010                                                                Preparation on the application of the German Research Foundation’s (DFG) Priority

                                                                            Programme 1630

                                                                           „Häfen von der Römischen Kaiserzeit bis zum Mittelalter. Zur Archäologie und Geschichte

                                                                           regionaler und überregionaler Verkehrssysteme“

                                                                            together with Th. Schmidts, RGZM Mainz

2011-12                                                        Postdoc at Arkeologiska forskningslaboratoriet (AFL), Stockholms universitet

                                                                           Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers, Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation

2012                                                               Principal Investigator excavation Hedeby-Hochburg

                                                                           together with L. Holmquist, Arkeologiska forskningslaboratoriet, Stockholms universitet

2012–2014                                                Assistant Investigator of the project

                                                                          "The Leiruvogur Harbor Research Project: Interdisciplinary Archaeological Examination of a

                                                                            Viking Harbor and its Hinterland in Iceland"

                                                                           within the Priority Programme 1630 of the German Research Foundation

2015/2016                                                 Principal Investigator excavation  "Birka's Black Earth Harbour "

                                                                           together with L. Holmquist, Arkeologiska forskningslaboratoriet, Stockholms universitet

2016                                                               Lektor (videnskabelig assistent)                                                          

                                                                          Institut for kultur og samfund (CAS), afd. for Arkæologi, Aarhus University.

2017                                                              Principal Investigator excavation "Die Menschen von Haithabu. Spurensuche im Gräberfeld"

2018                                                              Principal Investigator excavation  "Birka's Invisible Town Rampart" (seminariegrävning)

                                                                          together with L. Holmquist, Arkeologiska forskningslaboratoriet, Stockholms universitet

2019                                                              Principal Investigator excavation  "Birka's Invisible Town Rampart" (seminariegrävning)

                                                                         together with S. Isaksson, Arkeologiska forskningslaboratoriet, Stockholms universitet

2021 Representative for ZBSA-reaserch focus "Man and Artefact"

since 2023 Senior curator of the Younger Iron Age collections at the Department of Collections and Research at the National Historical Museums (SHM) in Stockholm