Eszter Bánffy

Academic Titles

Current positions

Director, Romano-Germanic Commission, German Archaeological Institute, Frankfurt am Main (2013-present)
Hon. professor: Szeged University, school of Geoarchaeology, (2009-present)
Hon. professor: Eötvös Loránd University, school of history and archaeology (2021-present),
Scientific advisor at the Inst. of Arch. Institute of Archaeology, Research Centre for the Humanities Budapest (2005-present)

Previous positions

2008-2011: deputy (scientific) director of the Inst. Arch. RCH Hung. Academy of Sc. Budapest
2001-2008: head of the scientific department at the Inst. Arch. RCH Hung. Academy of Sc. Budapest

Directing excavations

1986-1992: Hahót valley microregions, Zalaszentbalázs, (Neolithic, Chalcolithic)
1995-1999: Kerka valley microregions, head of a Slovenian-Austrian-Hungarian team
2000-2001: Sárköz at the Danube, Fajsz.
2010-2018: Sárköz at the Danube, Alsónyék. Post-excavation proceedings still ongoing

Co-directing excavations

Reviewing, editing, advisory

Fellowships

Soros ”Open Society” scholarship (1998-1999)
Scientific Board, Field Service for Cultural Heritage, Hungary: member (2007-2009), president (2010)
DAI ordinary member (2013-present)
Foundation “Oscar Montelius” chairperson (2014-2019)
Elected Fellow, Society of Antiquaries (2015)
Institut für historische Küstenforschung (Wilhelmshafen), appointed scientific advisory board member (2016-2023)
Fulbright scholarship (Harvard, Peabody Museum) (2006)
Max Planck Harvard Research center for Archaeoscience in the Ancient Mediterranean (MHAAM), appointed scientific advisory board member (2017-present)
Elected Fellow, British Academy (2017)
Elected Fellow, Royal Society of Gothenburg (2020)
Austrian Archaeological Institute, Austrian Academy of Sc., appointed Scientific advisory board member (2021-present)
Discovery Programme, Ireland, appointed external director (2022-present)
European Association of Archaeologists, elected Executive Board member (2005-2008), Secretary (2008-2011), Nomination Committee member (2021-2014), elected President (2021-present), President (2022-present)

Membership in scientific societies

European Association of Archaeologists (1995-present); elected executive board member, secretary, nom.comm. (2005-2014), president (2021-present)
Society for American Archaeology, member (2006-present, with interruptions)
European Academy of Sciences and Arts (Salzburg), elected member (2000-present)
Arch. Comm. Hung. Academy of Sc. elected member (1999-present)

Major collaborations

2009: Bioarchaeology and the Neolithic population of the Carpathian Basin, DFG (Mainz University. Co-PI, Hungarian project leader)
2008-11, 2011-14: OTKA (HSF), Alsónyék – proceedings (PI)
2011-2017: “The times of their lives” – ERC AdG, (Cardiff University. Head: Hungarian part)
2016: The Sopot development at 5000 BC – (Zagreb University, German and Hung. PI)
2017: “From Boyne to Brodgar” – (University College Dublin, the University of Highlands and Islands, The National Museum of Scotland, head of German team)
MoU and joint projects with further 14 European research institutions.

“Révay” prize of the Society of Antiquity, Hungarian Academy of Sc., for the best review (1985)
”Kuzsinszky” plaquette of the Hungarian Archaeological Society (2007)
3^rd Shanghai Archaeology Forum, Field discovery award: one of the best 10 projects in the world (2017)
Félix Neubergh Prize, University of Gothenburg (2018)
“Flóris Rómer” plaquette of the Hungarian Archaeological Society (2020)