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!!Professor Manuel Fernández-Götz receives prestigious Humboldt award
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[Professor Manuel Fernández-Götz|Member/Fernández-Götz_Manuel] MAE, member of the [History and Archaeology|Acad_Main/Sections/History_and_archaeology] Section of Academia Europaea since 2023, has been awarded a [Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award|https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/apply/sponsorship-programmes/friedrich-wilhelm-bessel-research-award] by the [Alexander von Humboldt Foundation|https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/en]. This outstanding honour is conferred to internationally recognised researchers in recognition of their entire academic record to date. Professor Fernández-Götz receives the reward in recognition of his interdisciplinary research into the archaeology of identities, early urbanisation, migrations, and conflict archaeology in Bronze and Iron Age Europe.__
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!About the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award

The award is named for German astronomer and mathematician Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (1784 - 1846) and funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. In addition to receiving personal award money in the amount of EUR 60,000, award winners are invited to carry out research projects of their own choice in cooperation with specialist colleagues in Germany.
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The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation sponsors distinguished international scientists and scholars irrespectively of their academic discipline or nationality and maintains an international network of academic cooperation and trust. The research awards have been a central pillar of the Foundation’s sponsorship activities since 1972. Numerous prize winners were later awarded a Nobel Prize. 
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!About Manuel Fernández-Götz

Manuel Fernández-Götz studied at the universities of Seville, Madrid, and Kiel, completing a binational PhD on the transformation of Iron Age societies in northeast Gaul. After finishing his doctorate, he coordinated the Heuneburg project at the State Office for Cultural Heritage Baden-Württemberg (2011-13).
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Manuel Fernández-Götz worked at the University of Edinburgh between 2013 and 2024, first as Chancellor's Fellow/Lecturer and then as Reader in European Archaeology. From 2019 to 2022 he was Head of the Archaeology Department. In 2022 he was appointed Abercromby Professor of Archaeology, an established chair first held by V. Gordon Childe. In 2025 he moved to the University of Oxford, where he is Professor of Later European Prehistory. 
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His main areas of interest are Iron Age and Roman societies in Europe, the archaeology of identities, early urbanism, and conflict archaeology. 
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In recognition of his research, Manuel Fernández-Götz was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize (2016) and the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s Thomas Reid Medal (2021). 
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