CLIOARCH stands for CLIOdynamic ARCHaeology, a research collective clustered around senior PI Felix Riede. CLIOARCH encompasses a wide and varying portfolio of projects and people, most of whom use computational approaches to understand human behaviour, biodiversity, and climate change - past, present, and future. CLIOARCH started as a European Research Council-funded Consolidator Grant project of the same title. Since 2026, it continues as a research group composed of projects funded from different sources as well as our bundle of micro-funded side projects. Much of what we do seeks to quantify and hence qualify human responses to rapidly changing climates, extreme environmental events, migration and adaptation. Chronologically, we focus on various parts of the Pleistocene, the Holocene, as well as the Anthropocene; we work mostly but not exclusively in Europe.
Read on to meet the team and explore our publications.
People at CLIOARCH
PIs
PIs
PhD students
PhD students
CLIOARCH post-doctoral affiliates
CLIOARCH post-doctoral affiliates
Former CLIOARCH postdocs
Former CLIOARCH postdocs
Dr. Izzy Wisher
Now Renfrew Fellow at Cambridge University.
Dr. Andreu Arinyo i Prats
Now Postdoc at Maine University.
Dr. Sheina Lew-Levy
Now Associate Professor at Durham University.
Dr. Nathalie Ø. Brusgaard
Now Assistant Professor at Leiden University.
Dr. Sarah Kerr
Now Lecturer in Archaeology at University College Cork.
Dr. Thomas Hess
CLIOARCH visitors
CLIOARCH visitors
Letícia Cristina Correa
FAPESP visiting postdoc (São Paulo University, Brazil), Aug 2026-Feb 2027
Email: leticiacorrea@usp.br
Benedetta Nardi
ERASMUS exchange student (Ferrara University, Italy), Aug 2026-Nov 2026
Email: benedetta.nardi01@gmail.com
Paul E. Smaldino
AUFF visiting researcher (University of California, Merced), Sept 2025-Oct 2025
Email: leticiacorrea@usp.br
Iulia Bădescu
AUFF visiting researcher (University of Montreal, Canada), Dec 2024-March 2025
Email: leticiacorrea@usp.br
Inga Fauth
ERASMUS intern (Hildesheim University, Germany), Oct 2021-Dec 2021
Email: hansman@uni-hildesheim.de
Kalliroi 'Iro' Tsirintoulaki
ERASMUS intern (Leiden University, Netherlands), Sept 2020-March 2021
Email: k.tsirintoulaki@umail.leidenuniv.nl
Brea McCauley
Visiting PhD student (Simon Fraser University, Canada), Feb-April 2020
Email: bmccaule@sfu.ca
Website: https://www.sfu.ca/archaeology/graduate/grad_students/mcCauley.html
Colin D. Wren
Visiting Professor (University of Colorado, Colorado Springs), Sept-Nov 2022
Email: cwren@uccs.edu
Website: https://anthropology.uccs.edu/colin-wren
Maria Barrera Cruz
Visiting Ph.D. student (University of Valencia, Spain), Sept-Dec 2022
Email: maria.barrera@uv.es
Website: https://www.uv.es/uvweb/universidad/es/ficha-persona-1285950309813.html?p2=bacruzma&idA=true
Renata Pedroso de Araújo
Visiting Ph.D. student (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil), Sept-Dec 2022
Email: rennyaraujo@yahoo.com
Website: https://bv.fapesp.br/en/pesquisador/96545/renata-pedroso-de-araujo
Mikel Díaz Rodriguez
'Margaria Salas' visiting post-doc (University of Santiago, Spain), March 2022-Feb 2023, now Interim Lecturer of Prehistory at the Faculty of History of the University of Vigo, and fellow at CISPAC (Interuniversity Research Centre for Atlantic Cultural Landscapes)
Email: mikel.diaz.rodriguez@gmail.com
Website: https://cispac.gal/en/scientific-staff/mikel-diaz-rodriguez/
José Ramón Rabuñal Gayo
'Margaria Salas' visiting post-doc (University of Alicante, Spain), March 2022-Feb 2023, now postdoctoral fellow at CISPAC (Interuniversity Research Centre for Atlantic Cultural Landscapes)
Email: jr.rabunal@gmail.com
Website: https://cispac.gal/en/scientific-staff/jose-ramon-rabunal-gayo/