Aristeidis Varis

Aristeidis Varis
Postdoctoral Researcher
(Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow)
aristeidis.varis@earth.ox.ac.uk

I am a geo-archaeologist examining how past landscapes preserve traces of human activity. Using primarily sedimentology and geomorphology, I investigate what these records can tell us about human evolution.
My Marie Skłodowska-Curie project, SPRINGSCAPES, hosted by the Active Tectonics research group, examines how tectonics and groundwater influenced human settlement during the last Ice Age in semi-arid Kazakhstan.

 

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May 2025 - present

Marie-Curie Fellow

 

Jan-Apr 2025

Postdoctoral researcher
German Research Foundation (DFG)
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2020-2025

MSc - Geosciences
University of Tuebingen, Germany

Thesis; Surface Processes and Grain Size of a Limestone Escarpment: the Fils Catchment in the Swabian Jura, Germany

 

2022 - 2024

Postdoctoral researcher
Senckenberg Institute for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment

 

2018-2022

PhD in Geoarchaeology
University of Tuebingen, Germany

Thesis; The Effect of Formation Processes on Palaeolithic Settlement Patterns: Insights from south Kazakhstan and the Swabian Jura, Germany

 

Sept 2016 - Jan 2017

Erasmus+ - MSc. Archaeological Sciences

University College London, London, UK

 

2015-2018

MA. - Prehistoric Archaeology
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Thesis; Microstratigraphic Analysis in Neolithic Settlements: Application of a Geoarchaeological Multi-Proxy Analysis in a Midden from the Site of Kyparissi Vasilika

 

2011-2015

BSc. - Archaeology and History of Art
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

 

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