Nazarij Buławka, PhD

Nazarij Buławka – PI of the AiQala project – an assistant professor in the Department of Oriental Archaeology. He specialises in landscape archaeology, the study of irrigation networks and the application of artificial intelligence in archaeology. He is a graduate of the Faculty of Archaeology at the University of Warsaw. Between 2022 and 2024, he carried out a postdoctoral project at the Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology in Tarragona (Spain) dedicated to the study of ancient irrigation networks using remote sensing and machine learning – UnderTheSands. Ancient irrigation detection and analysis using advanced remote sensing methods (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01-101062705). In 2020,  he received his doctoral degree on the basis of his dissertation entitled. “The settlement of Yaz culture in the oases of Tedjen and Murghab in Turkmenistan”.

prof. Barbara Kaim

Professor Barbara Kaim specialises in the archaeology of Iran, Afghanistan, and Central Asia, with a particular focus on the Parthian, Kushan, and Sassanid periods.

Agnieszka Szaforz

Agnieszka Szaforz is a Master’s student at the Faculty of Archaeology, University of Warsaw. She defended her bachelor’s thesis, ‘Potential Applications of Machine Learning for Archaeological Site Detection in the Middle East Using KH-9 HEXAGON satellite imagery: A Case Study of Qala-type Structures in Maidan Wardak and Logar, Afghanistan’, under the supervision of Nazarij Buławka. She undertook an internship at the Centre for Mediterranean Archaeology at the University of Warsaw and Centre for Research in Anthropology (CRIA).