Rate My Professor Thilo Rehren

Thilo Rehren is the A. G. Leventis Professor for Archaeological Sciences at the Science and Technology in Archaeology and Culture Research Center (STARC) of The Cyprus Institute, where he served as Director for five years until 2023. He holds a Visiting Professorship at the University of Science and Technology in Beijing and an honorary research affiliation at the University of Cambridge. Rehren received his MSc in Mineralogy from the Technical University Clausthal in 1984 and his PhD in Petrology from the University of Freiburg in 1988, after studying Earth Sciences with theses on copper-silver mineralization in southwest Germany and volcanic processes on Nisyros, Greece. Following a postdoctoral position at the University of Oxford, he began his career at the Institut für Archäometallurgie of the Deutsches Bergbau-Museum in Bochum, Germany. In 1999, he was appointed to the inaugural Chair in Archaeological Materials and Technologies at University College London’s Institute of Archaeology, building an international research group of postgraduate students and postdocs. He then undertook a five-year secondment to establish UCL Qatar as a center of excellence in museology, conservation, and archaeology before joining The Cyprus Institute in 2017.