Professor Ioannis Liritzis, MAE appointed Distinguished Professor at Chuzhou University#

Professor Ioannis Liritzis, MAE was appointed Distinguished Professor at Chuzhou University during the 2026 International Science and Technology Activity Week. The appointment was formalized during a signing ceremony with university President Prof. Xu Zhou, and held as part of the university's 2026 International Science and Technology Activity Week.

The honor was conferred during a ceremony attended by leaders from Anhui Province, distinguished scholars from across China and the world, and senior university officials, including the organizer Vice President Maosen Cao. The appointment marks a significant milestone in the collaboration between Chuzhou University and European Academies, and coincides with the broader "AI Paradigm and International Science and Technology" theme of the Anhui Province activity week.

The appointment acknowledged Prof. Liritzis's outstanding contributions to the interdisciplinary fields of archaeology, natural sciences, and digital heritage and his multiple academic activities. Prof. Liritzis delivered two keynote lectures: "The Algorithmic Archaeologist: AI from Fieldwork to Ancient Scripts" and "STEMAC: A New Paradigm for Archaeometry, Complexity and Cultural Heritage", to an audience of faculty and distinguished guests.

His appointment will see him working across several academic units, including the School of AI, the School of Music and Education, and the School of Fine Arts and Design. He will also collaborate with the Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of Unmanned Emergency Equipment and Digital Reconstruction of Disaster Processes, and the Geographical Information Key Laboratory

About Ioannis Liritzis#

Ioannis Liritzis, PhD, is currently Distinguished Professor and Head of the Advanced Digital Archaeological-Historical Network at Alma Mater Europaea University, Slovenia; Distinguished Professor at Henan University, China on Archaeometry, and Dean of Class IV Natural Sciences (2020 - 2025) and Vice President (2025 - 2030) of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Salzburg. He holds a BSc in Physics from Patras University, and his PhD from Physics Dept, Edinburgh University, in Nuclear instrumentation and U-TH and Thermoluminescence dating techniques of Greek archaeological materials.

He is a pioneer in introducing new dating methods for ancient monuments and metals and obsidian tools. Additional novel research output includes palaeoenvironment, geosciences, solar-terrestrial relationships.

Currently he is investigating the novel development of algorithms and use of fractals and complexity measures in archaeological materials for characterization, provenance, scribe identification, new methods of obsidian hydration dating and policy work on STEM in Arts and Culture, and past climatic changes impact to cultures.

Prof. Liritzis was elected member of the History and Archaeology Section of Academia Europaea in 2025.

About Chuzhou University#

Chuzhou University is a public university located in Anhui Province, China, committed to high-quality application-oriented talent development and international academic collaboration.