MSRG Committee Member
Roland Filzwieser is Senior Scientist at the Vienna Institute for Archaeological Science (VIAS), University of Vienna, and a member of the Human Evolution and Archaeological Sciences (HEAS) research network. His research focuses on medieval settlement and long-term landscape change in Central and Northern Europe, with particular interests in medieval and Viking-Age landscapes, settlement dynamics, and how rural communities adapted to environmental, economic, and political pressures over time. A key strand of his work is developing approaches to bring different kinds of sources into a shared, landscape-scale interpretation. He combines archaeological prospection (especially magnetometry, ground-penetrating radar and digital terrain models) with historical maps and written sources, using GIS-based approaches to connect material traces, mapped landscapes, and documentary records. Trained in History and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Vienna, Roland has worked in academic research and applied practice, with a strong focus on archaeological prospection for more than a decade. He was closely involved in the planning and curation of DeVill, the digitised Deserted Medieval Villages Archive of the Austrian Society for Medieval and Modern Archaeology, helping to make formerly analogue research data on more than 3,000 Austrian DMVs accessible and internationally reusable for future research.
Medieval Settlement Research Group 