Professor of Classical Archaeology and director of the Archaeological Museum of Münster University. He previously has served as director of the Center for Mediterranean Studies at Bochum University from 2013-2016 and is one of the founding editors of Mittelmeerstudien (Schöningh – Brill). He is co-director of excavations in Armenia, Israel and Jordan and works on political representation, religion, numismatics and landscapes in the Graeco-Roman Mediterranean. Although trained as a classicist his interests extend into late antiquity and beyond the shores of the Mediterranean.