● Ancient economic history and archaeology
● Integration of micro- and macroeconomics in the ancient economy
● Digital methods in the humanities
● Modeling and simulation of economic systems (especially ABM)
● Spatial analysis
● Ancient urbanism
● Social inequalities in past societies
● Conflict research and theory in antiquity
● Science communication and knowledge transfer
Oct. 2014 – June 2015
June 2015 – May 2017
May 2017 – July 2018
July 2018
May 2017 – Nov. 2018
Feb. 2019 – May 2019
May 2019 – Sept. 2021
Oct. 2021 – July 2022
July 2022 – Jan. 2026
April 2023 – July 2023
since Jan. 2026
Archaeological excavator at the Roman-Germanic Museum, Cologne, Germany.
Student assistant (SHK )at the Archaeological Institute of the University of Cologne, Germany. Library, database migrations.
Graduate assistant (WHB) at the Geographical Institute of the University of Cologne in the Qesem project, Geoarchaeolgical Department. 3D laserscanning and processing.
Assistant at AIAC 2018 Cologne/Bonn for the Archaeological Institute of the University of Cologne. Editorial, IT.
Graduate assistant (WHB) at the Institute of Archaeology at the University of Cologne. Library, IT, translations, website, re-documentation and inventarization of archaeological collection, excavations.
Graduate assistant (WHB) at the Institute for Archaeology and Cultural Anthropology at the Rheinische-Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany. English editorial.
Graduate assistant (WHK) for the IT-Department of the Head Office of the German Archaeological Institute, Berlin, Germany; iDAI.world, support IT direction, web design.
Graduate assistant (WHK) for the DFG-Project „Göbekli Tepe“ at the Orient Department of the German Archaeological Institute, Berlin, Germany. GIS, CAD, geodetic surveying, database migration.
Research assistant at the Cluster of Excellence ROOTS at Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel; Subcluster Social Inequalities, Conflict and member of the Young Academy and SECC.
Visiting PhD at UrbNet, Aarhus University, Denmark with Tom Brughmans and Iza Romanowska.
Postdoctoral research assistant in the ERC Maritime Dependencies, Trier University, Germany. RDM, quantification, building economics, conflict theory and evaluation, simulation and modelling.
2013 – 2017
2017 – 2021
2018 – 2019
2022 – 2025
BA degree in Classical and Provincial Roman Archaeology, University of Cologne, Germany. “Auswertung der Grabungen am Stadttor von Dimal, Illyrien”.
MA degree of Classical Archaeology and Archaeoinformatics, University of Cologne, Germany. “Ostia. Eine Raumanalyse zur Wirtschafts- und Stadtstruktur mittels Space Syntax Analysis”
Erasmus Scholarship at Sapienza Università Roma, Italy.
Doctoral programm Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology at ROOTS Cluster of Excellence, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Germany. “Homo Oeconomicus Romanus. Understanding Roman Economic Logic through Archaeological Data and Formal Models”
Forthcoming: K. Zerzeropulos – I. Romanowska – T. Brughmans, One Economy, Many Networks: How Analytical Scale Shapes the Reconstruction of Trade Dependencies in the Roman Mediterranean, In: DAI Cluster 8 Proceedings (forthcoming).
2026: K. Zerzeropulos, Homo Oeconomicus Romanus: Understanding Roman Economic Logic through Archaeological Data and Formal Models (Kiel 2026), available at: https://macau.uni-kiel.de/receive/macau_mods_00008061.
2026: K. Zerzeropulos, Let the agents do the work for you, in: J. Lipps et al. (eds.), Römische Steinarchitektur in Deutschland und ihre Erforschung: eine Standortbestimmung. Akten der internationalen Konferenz in Ingelheim vom 18. – 20. Oktober 2023 (Heidelberg 2026), 561-596.
2025: D. Jonjic et al, “Moin”, “Buddel” and “Klönschnack” The language habits of Northern Germany, in: H. Brandt – F. Schwake – F. Walker-Friedrich, Old Habits Die Hard, ROOTS Booklet Series 05 (Leiden 2025).
2025: F. Schwake et al, Turns in Archaeology – Breaking Habits in the Humanities, in: H. Brandt – F. Schwake – F. Walker-Friedrich, Old Habits Die Hard, ROOTS Booklet Series 05 (Leiden 2025).
2025: K. Zerzeropulos et al, Old habits die hard? Bad habits die harder! Discrimination throughout history, in: H. Brandt – F. Schwake – F. Walker-Friedrich, Old Habits Die Hard, ROOTS Booklet Series 05 (Leiden 2025)
2025: S. Wichmann et al, Fingerprinting conflict: A comparative model with applications to archaeological and historical data, PLOS One 20,2, 2025.
2022: K. Zerzeropulos, A space syntax approach to Ostia’s port, PhDAI.reports 1, 2022.
