Maja Gori holds a PhD in Pre- and Protohistory and Aegean Archaeology from the University of Heidelberg, in cotutelle de thèse with the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. She has worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Universities of Bochum, Heidelberg, Amsterdam, and Mainz. In 2017, she obtained the Habilitation as professor in Italy, and since 2018 she has held a permanent position as researcher at the CNR-ISPC (Institute for Heritage Science, Italian National Research Council), where she was promoted to senior researcher in 2024. In 2025, she was appointed Associate Professor of Pre- and Protohistory at the University of Trento. Her research focuses on prehistoric archaeology, particularly in the Balkans and Central Mediterranean. Her interests include mobility and cultural transmission, the relationship between identities and material culture, archaeological theory, network analysis, agent-based modelling, and the political uses of archaeology in present-day identity building. Key publications: M. Gori, A. Hellmuth Kramberger, T. Krapf & G. Recchia (eds.) Archaeology of Mountainous Landscapes in Balkan Prehistory. Prähistorische Archäologie in Südosteuropa: Propylaeum 2026. M. Gori & A. Abar, 2022. Confronting Anthropological and Natural Scientific Approaches to Migration in Archaeology, in M. Fernández-Götz, C. Nimura, P. Stockhammer & R. Cartwright (eds.): Rethinking Migrations in Late Prehistoric Eurasia. Proceedings of the British Academy. Oxford University Press, Oxford M. Gori, A. Di Renzoni & E. Carletti 2021. Connecting the Dots in the Adriatic-Ionian Area. Long-Distance Networks in the 3rd Millennium BC. Origini XLV-2021: 147-170. A. Bulatović, M.Gori & M. Vander Linden. Radiocarbon Dating the 3rd Millennium BC in the Central Balkans: a re-examination of the Early Bronze Age sequence, Radiocarbon 62.5, 2020: 1163–1191 M. Gori, Kατὰ γῆν καὶ κατὰ θάλασσαν. Cetina communities on the move across the Central Mediterranean and the Balkans in the 3rd millennium BC. In: J. Maran, R. Băjenaru, S.C. Alincăi, A.D. Popescu, S. Hansen (eds.), Objects, Ideas and Travelers. Contacts between the Balkans, the Aegean and Western Anatolia during the Bronze and Early Iron Age, Proc. Conf. to the memory of A. Vulpe, Bonn: Habelt, 2020, pp. 65–83 M. Gori & M. Ivanova (eds.). Balkan Dialogues. Negotiating Identity Between Prehistory and the Present, London & New York: Routledge, 2017. M. Gori. Along the Rivers and Through the Mountains. A reviewed chrono-cultural framework for the south-western Balkans during the late 3rd and early 2nd millennium BCE, UPA, Bonn: Habelt, 2015.