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Dr. Mike Belasus

Dr. phil, Dipl. Prähist.

 

Research Associate

Tel.: +49 4421 50 074 056

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https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8824-7299

 

Curriculum vitae

Since 2021Research associate at NIhK in Wilhelmshaven. Principal Investigator of the Project „Coast without ships – Evidence for watercraft of the first millennium AD in North West Germany“ funded by Pro-Niedersachsen.
2018-2021Research associate at the Saxo-Institute, University of Copenhagen, within the Project „TIMBER: Northern Europe’s timber resource - chronology, origin and exploitation“, funded by the European Research Commission (ERC).
2015-2018Research associate at the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven within the Project „From the North Sea to the Norwegian Sea – interdisciplinary research on the Hanseatic League“, funded by the Leibniz-Foundation.
2015Conferment of doctorate from the University of Rostock. Thesis on Tradition and Change in clinker-shipbuilding in the Baltic Sea Region during Early Modern Times.
2014-2015Research associate at the NIhK in Wilhelmshaven. Research assessment on first millennium AD watercraft along the southern North Sea coast.
2011-2014Research associate at the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven within the Project „Threatened cultural archive North Sea“, funded by the Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF). 
2008-2011Research associate at the German Archaeological Institute’s Roman-Germanic-Commission in Frankfurt a. M. within the research project „Shipbuilding and shipping during the high and late medieval period – Evaluation of the archaeological sources from the south-western Baltic Sea“, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
2005-2007Research associate at the State Office for Culture and Heritage Protection, Department for Archaeology in Schwerin/Mecklenburg-West Pomerania.
1999-2004Studies in Archaeology at the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel. Graduation with a thesis on a 12th century ship from the island Möweninsel near Schleswig.

Research priorities

  • Nautical Archaeology

Current research topics

  • Pro-Niedersachsen funded project: Coast without ships – Evidence for watercraft of the first millennium AD in the southern North Sea region.

Memberships, honorary offices, awards

  • Member working group archaeological cultural heritage of the German Academy of Science LEOPOLDINA, Halle /Saale.
  • Member working group DNA – Digital Nautical Archaeology.