Askold Ivantchik

Proffesional Activities

Teaching and research positions

• 1986–1993: Assistant, Junior Research Fellow, Research Fellow at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow (Dept. of Ancient Orient)
• 1990–1992: Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland (Fellowship of the Canton Fribourg)
• 1992: Lecturer at the University of Bern, Switzerland
• 1993–1995: Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Heidelberg, Germany (Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation)
• 1994–2023: Research Fellow, Senior Research Fellow, Leading Research Fellow, Chief Research Fellow, Scientific director at the Centre for Comparative Studies on Ancient Civilizations, Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, fired for political reasons
• 1996–1997: Junior Fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies (Harvard University), Washington D.C., USA
• 1997–1998: Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Strasbourg, France
• 1998–: Research Fellow (Chargé de recherche), Senior Research Fellow (directeur de recherche) at the CNRS (Institute “Ausonius”, UMR 5607), Bordeaux, France
• 2001–2002: Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA
• 2004–2005: Research Fellow at the German Archaeological Institute, Berlin, Germany (Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Award)
• 2007–2019: Professor of Ancient History at Moscow Lomonosov State University, Russia
• 2008: Member of the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (Uppsala)
• 2011–2019: Senior Fellow of the Excellence Cluster Topoi (Berlin), Research Project B-2-4 «Scythian Tombs – between Monumentality and Gigantomania»
• 2012: Visiting professor at the University of Tbilisi (Georgia)
• 2015–2022: Professor of Archaeology, Dean of the Faculty of History (2015–2017), research fellow at the Russian Academy of Economics and Public Administration (Moscow), fired for political reasons
• 2019–: Professor and director of the Center for Classical and Oriental Archaeology, Academic director of the Master program “Archaeological Studies”, National Research University HSE, Moscow
  

Institutions of national academic life

Academies and learned societies
Corresponding member of the:

• 2002–: German Archaeological Institute (DAI)
• 2003–: Russian Academy of sciences
• 2004–: Istituto Italiano per l’Africa e l’Oriente (IsIAO)/ISMEO (since 2012)
• 2016–: Institut de France (Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres)
  
  2009–: President of the Russian Association of Classical Studies
  

Responsibilities:

• 2009–2023: Scientific director at the Centre for Comparative Studies on Ancient Civilizations, Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, fired for political reasons
• 2019–: director of the Center for Classical and Oriental Archaeology, Academic director of the Master program “Archaeological Studies”, National Research University HSE, Moscow
• 2002–: Senior Fellow at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University, USA
• 2010–2021: Member of the directing committee (Comité de pilotage) of the LaScArB (Laboratoire d’excellence “Sciences archéologiques à Bordeaux”)
• 2011–2016: Member of the Council of the Russian Foundation for Humanities (RGNF)
• 2012-2016, 2022–: Member of the Council of the Institute «Ausonius», UMR 5607
• 2013–: Member of the International Research Council of the project “Achemenet”
• 2013–2019: Vice-president of the Council on researches of the Ministry of science and education of Russia
• 2015–2017: Dean of the Faculty of History (2015–2017) at the Russian Academy of Economics and Public Administration (Moscow)
• 2018–2025: Vice-president of the Commission on the pseudo-science and falsification of researches of the Russian Academy of sciences, Moscow
• 2025–: Co-PI (principal investigator) at the GPR (Grand Programme de Recherche) Human Past, Department of archaeological sciences of Bordeaux (Bordeaux University and Bordeaux Montaigne University) supported by the French government in the frame of the Initiative Excellence