Zeynep Koçel Erdem

Zeynep Koçel Erdem graduated from Istanbul University, Department of Prehistory and Archaeology in 1982. She completed her master’s degree in 1984 and PhD in 1996 in Classical Archaeology at the same university. She has been working as faculty member at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University/İstanbul, Department of Archaeology since 2000. Her main research interest is the archaeology of the Eastern Thrace. Since 2008 she has been conducting archaeological surveys in Tekirdağ Province and the Gallipoli Peninsula of Çanakkale Province in Turkey. Since 2021 she is the director of Excavations in Perinthos (Tekirdağ Marmara Ereğlisi).