Paula Gheorghiade is an archaeologist and postdoctoral researcher at the Social Resilience Lab, Aarhus University. As part of the Villum Foundation Synergy funded project ROMNET, her research involves the categorization of archaeological assumptions about the way in which material culture similarity reflects past social networks, with the goal of developing methodological tools to support the archaeological practice of creating material culture similarity networks. She completed her PhD at the University of Toronto, where her dissertation modelled interaction and mobility in Late Bronze Age Crete and the eastern Mediterranean using GIS, spatial and ceramic data.

Paula’s broader research interests include interaction networks, mobility in the eastern Mediterranean, archaeological theory, and computational archaeology. Her work integrates quantitative archaeology, data science, and archaeological theory to address topics such as trade, exchange, and the value of material culture, with a focus on ceramics.

Previously, Paula held a postdoctoral position at the Centre of Excellence for the Study of Ancient Near Eastern Empires (ANEE), University of Helsinki, where she contributed to research and fieldwork in northern Jordan. Her most recent publication in the Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology (JCAA) focused on modelling interaction in the Mediterranean using GIS and wind data. She is also co-editing a forthcoming volume on complexity and networks in first-millennium northern Jordan, scheduled for publication with Bloomsbury Academic Press in December 2025.

Contact: 
Paula Gheorghiade
Institut for Kultur og Samfund
Social Resilience LabJens Chr. Skous Vej 4
8000 Aarhus C
p.gh@cas.au.dk