Eszter Banffy

Eszter Bánffy (ORCID ID: 0000-0001-5156-826X) graduated from prehistoric and medieval archaeology, as well as Indology and comparative Indoeuropean linguistics at the ELTE University, Budapest. She has been doing research in the prehistory of Central and South East Europe and became involved also in theoretic issues and matters of heritage protection. As a professor of prehistoric archaeology and of geoarchaeology, she has been conducting several projects within Hungary. She is in charge of a work team while the programs are extended with several international projects.  Eszter Bánffy is an author of eleven books, editor of six volumes and more than two hundred chapters and articles, published in Europe, the US, Russia and Japan. She has given lectures and courses in universities of Europe and in America, including the Harvard, where she spent a semester as visiting scholar in 2008. She served on the Board of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) as an executive board member and as secretary (2005-2011), in 2020 she was elected EAA President. Besides working in the Institute of Archaeology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, she is a professor supervising PhD students at two universities: ELTE Budapest and SZTE Szeged. In 2017 she was elected in the British Academy. Between 2013 and 2023 she worked as the director of the Romano-Germanic Commission of the German Archaeological Institute, in Frankfurt. In this position, she also helped with international archaeological projects especially between West and East European countries, a task she continues to fulfil in the RGK Research Unit Budapest, located at her place at the Archaeological Institute, RCH, of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, where is currently a research professor.
Address: Tóth Kálmán utca 4, H - 1097 Budapest, Hungary