Project Manager Assistant for Cultural Heritage
ORCID: 0000-0002-9635-5847
Dr. Mahmoud Mardini is currently serving as a Project Manager Assistant for Cultural Heritage in the Department of Resilient Society (ERATOSTHENES Centre of Excellence). He is tasked to assist and support the Cultural Heritage team in managing their projects. As an early-career researcher (bioarchaeologist), Dr Mardini has cultivated extensive experience in Eastern Mediterranean Bioarchaeology. He received his PhD in Science and Technology in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage from the Cyprus Institute (2024), following an MSc in Osteoarchaeology at the University of Sheffield (2017) and a BA in Archaeology (Minor in Biology, 2016) at the American University of Beirut. His research focuses on bioarchaeology in Lebanon, where he has conducted fieldwork on human and faunal assemblages from the Middle Bronze Age to the Roman period. Dr Mardini has participated in excavations and surveys primarily in Lebanon but also in Cyprus, and has worked with institutions such as the Lebanese Directorate General of Antiquities and the Cypriot Department of Antiquities. Despite many challenges during his PhD, such as the COVID-19 pandemic and Lebanon’s severe economic and political crisis, Dr Mardini completed his PhD and parallelly published over 20 peer-reviewed articles. He has also co-created open-access tools (e.g. Bi(bli)oArch, Bi(bli)oArch-Italia, ZooBi(bli)oArch, SrIsoMed, MetaBioarch) and resources (e.g. Bare Bones: Our Ancestors’ bones have a lot to say) supporting archaeological sciences. His research illuminates previously unstudied biocultural aspects of Phoenicia’s (modern-day Lebanon) economy and political structure, hence substantially contributing to the subject of Mediterranean Roman bioarchaeology.
