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Professor Dr. Luca Giuliani

1950
born in Florence
school in Florence and Switzerland

1969
Swiss high school degree 

1969-1975
Study of classic archaeology, ethnology and Italian literature in Basel 

1975
PhD with the dissertation: "The Archaic Metopes of Selinunt" 

1975-1978
Private assistant to Karl Schefold for his research on the iconography of Greek legends

1978-1979
Research scholarship awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Heidelberg 

1979-1986
Researcher at the Antikenmuseum of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation in Berlin

1984
Habilitation in Heidelberg in the field of classic archaeology, with the work: "Portrait and Message: A Hermeneutic Inquiry into the Art of Portraiture in the Roman Republic"

1986
Moved habilitation to the Freie Universität Berlin 

1986-1991
Lecturer at the Freie Universität's Institute of Classical Archeology

1986-1992
Curator, chief curator and acting director of the Antikenmuseum Berlin

1992-1998
Professor of classic archaeology at the University of Freiburg 

1997-1998
Chair in classic archaeology (as replacement) at the University of Heidelberg 

1998-2007
Professor of classic archaeology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich

1999-2000
Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin 

since 2001
Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities

2002-2007
Member of the Advisory Board to the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin 

2005
Visiting professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris (Centre Louis Gernet)

2005-2006
Guest at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin

since 2007
Rector of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin

2010
Sigmund-Freud-Prize for Academic Prose

since 2011
Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - National Academy of Sciences 

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