Mining as an Economic Factor: A LiDAR and GIS-Based Analysis of the West Osogovo Mountains during the Roman and Late Roman Periods

Katrin Dorfner completed her bachelor’s and master’s degree in Classical Archaeology at the University of Regensburg. For her BA, she was awarded the Brigitta und Oskar Braumandl Preis 2023. She spent one semester abroad at the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg (SS 2023) and an ERASMUS semester at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (WS 2023/24). During her studies at the University of Regensburg, she worked first as a student assistant and then as a research assistant at the Institute.

Katrin participated in various excavations and surveys in Austria (Ovilavis/Wels), Italy (Bibione and Velia) and Greece (Ägina-Kolonna, Kerameikos and Perachora). She also gained experience through internships at the Samos Archive at the German Archaeological Institute in Athens and at the Department of Information Sources and Landscape Archaeology at the Archaeological Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague.

Since October 2025, she is a PhD student at the Institute of Classical Archaeology at the Charles University in Prague, researching the topic ‚Mining as an Economic Factor: A LiDAR and GIS-Based Analysis of the West Osogovo Mountains during the Roman and Late Roman Periods’. Her PhD is an inherent part of Dr. Barbora Weissová’s project, ‘Peek under the Canopy’. Mining Landscapes in the West Osogovo Mountains‘, financed by PRIMUS (25/SSH/007).