Project Director
Alexandru Berzovan
Personal information
Date of birth: 23.03.1986
Civil status: married, one child
Present academic position: researcher at the Institute of Archaeology Iași, of the Romanian Academy;
Personal address: Romania, Iași, Str. Izvor, 10, Bloc 636, scara A, ap. 2.
Phone number and email: 0722 223 550, berzovanalexandru@gmail.com
Brainmap ID: U-1700-032M-1147
Academia.edu account: https://arheo.academia.edu/AlexandruBerzovan
Education
Ancient History and Archaeology; Late Iron Age; Late Iron Age Hillforts; East Carpathian Area during the Late Iron Age.
2015 - PhD in History at the Al. I. Cuza University Iași with the thesis „Bazinul Mureșului Inferior și sud-vestul Munților Apuseni în perioada clasică a Daciei Preromane” [English: „The Lower Mureș Basin and the South-Western Apuseni Mountains during the Classical Period of Ancient Dacia (sec. II î.Hr. – I d.Hr.)”]
Link: http://phdthesis.uaic.ro/SitePages/Doctoral%20School%20of%20History%20(2015).aspx
The PhD has already been published as a book: http://edituramega.ro/carte/644-bazinul-muresului-inferior-si-sud-vestul-muntilor-apuseni-in-perioada-clasica-a-daciei-preromane
Team
Main research interests
Work experience
2016 – present, Researcher at Romanian Academy, Iași Branch
Membership
Register of Romanian Archaeologists (since 2016); Member in European Association of Archaeologists (since 2018).
Archaeological excavations
2022: Albești - Cetățuia; 2021: Dobrovăț - Cetățuia; Albești - Cetățuia; 2020: Dobrovăț - La Livadă; 2019: Dobrovăț- Pădurea Buda; Dobrovăț – Cetățuia; Iași –rescue excavations; Bacău – Bacău Bypass; 2018: Mitoc – Malu Galben; Iași – rescue excavations; 2017: Scânteia – Dealul Bodeștilor; Poiana Mănăstirii – Între Șanțuri.
Prizes and scholarship awarded by professional associations and institutions
Excellency prize of the Romanian Academy, Iași Branch – 2018; Vasile Pârvan prize of the Romanian Academy – 2024.
Training and documentation stages in foreign countries
Research record
2017 – International School of Field Archaeology in Bolgar (Republic of Tatarstan, The Russian Federation); 2019 – Research fellowship at DAI in Berlin (Germany).
two monographs, one critical edition, three co-edited volumes, 72 scientific articles, notes and reviews. More than 65 participations at national and international conferences (Republic of Moldova, Republic of North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Spain, Ukraine, The Russian Federation).