The Neopalatial Sequence of the Palace at Malia (1700-1430 BCE, Crete). A Contextual, Architectural and Ceramic Approach 

Iro Mathioudaki is a field archaeologist and ceramic expert. She received her PhD in Prehistoric Archaeology at the University of Athens, Greece (2011) and recently completed a three-year postdoctoral fellowship (2017-2020) at the UCLouvain (National Fund for Scientific Research, F.R.S.-FNRS). She is a Minoan pottery specialist of the period of the New Palaces and has greatly contributed to the assessment of ceramic evidence within their social and cultural context, the reappraisal of pottery production and consumption patterns and the refinement of settlement sequences and chronologies. She has worked extensively on varied and usually large Knossian (Palace, South House, South-West Houses), other Minoan (Juktas, Sissi, Malia, Galatas), Cycladic (Akrotiri, Thera) and Helladic ceramic assemblages (Ayios Vasileios, Kirrha, Eleusis, Karystos) and received INSTAP grants and funding from the British School at Athens for her project ‘The pottery from the Houses of the Fallen Blocks and Sacrificed Oxen at Knossos’ (2012-2015, published). Iro Mathioudaki has produced high-impact publications in peer-reviewed journals, book reviews, and has participated in numerous conferences, workshops and scientific meetings.