
Hauke Jöns
Prof. Dr. rer. nat., Dipl.-Prähistoriker
Scientific director
Head of Department for Cultural Sciences
Tel.: +49 4421 915-112
Publications
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6375-3945
Curriculum vitae
- since 2010: Executive director at the NIhK Wilhelmshaven
- since 2010: Adjunct professor for Archaeology, University of Rostock
- since 2006: Deputy director of the institute and head of Department of Cultural Sciences at the NIhK Wilhelmshaven
- 2002: Lectureship, University of Rostock
- 2001: Habilitation, Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel. Thesis: “On the development of the pre- and protohistoric iron metallurgy in North Germany and South Scandinavia”
- 2000 - 2006: Acting director of the Archaeological State Museum of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Head of the Department for Conservation and Management of Archaeological Heritage
- 1997 - 2000: Research associate at the Institute of Pre- and Protohistory, Kiel University
- 1995 - 1997: Research associate at the Archaeological State Museum of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
- 1993: PhD Graduation, Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel. Thesis: “Excavations at Osterrönnfeld. A site of the Stone Bronze and Iron Age in the county of Rendsburg-Eckernförde”
- 1990 - 1994: Research associate at the Institute of Pre- and Protohistory, Kiel University
- 1988: Diploma, Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel
- 1983 - 1988: Study of Pre- and Protohistory, Anthropology and Geology at Kiel University
Research priorities
- Structures of communication and exchange in the first Millennium AD at the coastal zones of North Sea and Baltic Sea
- Stone-age settlement of North Germany
- Archaeometry of ceramics
- Drowned prehistoric landscapes and settlements in the North Sea and Baltic Sea
Current research topics
- Elsfleth-Hogenkamp, Wesermarsch county – an economic center of the Roman Iron Age at the mouth of the river Hunte
- Pottery making traditions in the Funnelbeaker Culture
- The roman iron age and migration period graveyard Fallward, district of Cuxhaven
- Trading Terps and Geest boundary harbours – medieval trade ports on the German North Sea coast
- Early Medieval harbours between Wismar Bay and Bay of Danzig
- Structure and organisation of the early medieval economy and society in the coastal area of East Frisia –the settlement area of Dunum, Wittmund county as a modell region
- Settlement- and cultural history of the Wadden Sea area in Lower Saxony
- Splashcos-Viewer in the framework of COST-Action Submerged Prehistoric Archaeology and Landscapes of the Continental Shelf
Memberships, honorary offices, awards
- Member of the editorial board Archäologisches Korrespondenzblatt, RGZM Mainz
- Corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute
- Member of the Archaeological Society of Mecklenburg and Vorpommern
- Chairman of the Marschenrat zur Förderung der Forschung im Küstengebiet der Nordsee
- Chairman of the Nordwestdeutsche Universitätsgesellschaft e.V.
- Member of the scientific board of the Küstenmueum Wilhelmshaven
- Member of the scientific board of the domestic animal park „Arche Warder“
- Member of the scientific board of “the new museum of the Viking Age, Museum of Cultural History, Oslo
- Member of the scientific board of the journal “Archäologie in Deutschland“
- Member of the scientific committee of the Ostfriesische Landschaft
- Member of the coordinating committee of the Sachsensymposium
- Member of the commission for underwater archaeology (KUWA) at the Association of State Archaeologists