Team members

Kristóf Fülöp, archaeologist

Kristóf Fülöp is an archaeologist. Since 2022, he has been employed as a young research fellow at the HUN-REN Institute of Archaeology. From 2024 onwards, he is a research assistant. In 2025 he successfully defended his PhD thesis at the Doctoral School of History of Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, title of his PhD thesis is: “A comparative study of burials in the Northern Great Plain during the tumulus period through funeral rituals. The technology of cremation”. His research primarily focuses on the micro- and macro-level study of Late Bronze Age cremation burials, employing object biographical analyses and experimental archaeological observations as the primary approach and methodology.

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Eszter Melis, archaeologist

Eszter Melis is an archaeologist and research assistant at the HUN-REN Institute of Archaeology, having commenced her tenure in 2015. Her research interests include the analysis of Early and Middle Bronze Age settlement structure, burial customs and material culture in Western Hungary. In 2023, she successfully defended her PhD thesis, entitled “Northwestern Transdanubia from the end of the Early Bronze Age to the Koszider period”, at the Doctoral School of History of the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest (supervisor: Gábor V. Szabó).

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Nóra Szabó, archaeologist

Nóra Szabó is an archaeologist, research assistant at the HUN-REN Institute of Archaeology. In 2024 she successfully defended her PhD thesis at the Doctoral School of History of Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, title of her PhD thesis is “Change and transformation during the transitional period between the Middle and Late Bronze Age along the Danube section of the capital city – Settlement structure analyses based on several sites from the Vatya III – Koszider period and the early Tumulus period”. Her main research field is related to the Middle Bronze Age settlements of the Carpathian Basin. Her research topics include the internal structure of settlements, the evaluation of functional and spatially detectable differences in the artefact material, and the analysis of settlement networks.

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