Apostolos Sarris

Research Director (GeoSat Research Lab, Institute for Mediterranean Studies, FORTH)

BIO

Apostolos Sarris (male) holds a B.A. in Astronomy & Physics (1985) and an M.A. in Physics (1988) from Boston University and a M.Sc. (1990) and a Ph.D. in Physics/Geophysics (1992) from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is Research Director at F.O.R.T.H. and Head of the Laboratory of Geophysical-Satellite Remote Sensing and Archaeo-environment (GeoSat ReSeArch Lab) and at the same time 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. Apostolos Sarris acted also as a vice-president of the European Section of the Archaeological Remote Sensing Consortium, as an assistant Greek representative in the scientific committee for Peace and Security of NATO, Vice-Chair of the International Society of Archaeological Prospection (ISAP) and as President of CAA-GR. He is currently member of UISPP Commission IV, and associate editor of the Society for Archaeological Sciences Bulletin, Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences Journal and of Archaeological Prospection Journal. Dr Sarris has more than 300 publications (including 1 Ph.D. dissertation, 42 book chapters, 2 Proceedings Volumes, 110 refereed journal papers, and 120 refereed papers in proceedings). His teaching experience include contracted Lectureships at various institutions (Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki; Univ. of Crete., TEI Chania; National Air-force Academy; Univ. of Maryland – European Division). Dr. Sarris has organized, planned and participated in more than 210 geophysical/satellite remote sensing/GIS/GPS projects in Greece, U.S.A., Cyprus, Hungary, Albania, Italy, Turkey and Egypt & participated in than 90 Greek and international large scale projects. Dr Sarris is the Vice-Chair of COST Action SAGA.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  1. 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)
  2. Sarris, A., Geophysics, Encyclopedia of GeoArchaeology, ed. by Allan S. Gilbert, Part of the series Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series, Springer, pp 323-326. 2016. http://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007%2F978-1-4020-4409-0
  3. Sarris, A. (ed), Best Practices of GeoInformatic Technologies for the Mapping of Archaeolandscapes. Archaeopress Archaeology, Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. England, Oxuniprint, Oxford. 2015. ISBN 9781784911621.
  4. 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

CONTACT

EMAIL: asaris@ret.forthnet.gr

SKYPE: apostolos_sarris