Education

• BA in archaeology 2001, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
• MA in archaeology 2005, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
• PhD in archaeology 2007, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana

Periods of stay abroad

• 2014: CENDARI TNA Research Fellow for digital humanities at Trinity College Dublin.
• 2010, 2011: Post-doctoral education at the MSHE C.N. Ledoux, Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon, France.
• 2009: Researchers Exchange Program na Visual and Spatial Technology Centre at the University of Birmingham, UK;
• 2008: Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum Geschichte und Kultur Ostmitteleuropas, University of Leipzig, Germany;
• 2006: Department for Archaeology for Medieval and Post-Medieval studies at the Otto-Friedrich University, Bamberg, Germany (Lehrstuhls für Archäologie des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit na Otto-Friedrich-Universität;
• 2006: Institut for Archaeology, Slovak Academy of Sciences and Arts (AV SAV), Nitra, Slovakia;
• 2005: Lehrstuhl für Archäologie des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit, Die Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, study visit;
• 2005: Archeologický ústav SAV, Nitra, Slovaška, study visit;
• 2004, 2005: Department of Archaeology, Masarik University at Brno, Czech Republic;

Research interests

• Early and High Medieval (7th-12th c.) archaeology
• GIS and LiDAR (ALS) derived data
• Advanced methods of archaeological documentation and dissemination (data bases, 3D "structure from motion", digital publications)
• Digital curation of archaeological data and digital archaeology
• Recently also applications of artificial intelligence in archaeology

• ŠTULAR, B. 2025. Rethinking Ethnic Identity in the Archaeologyof the Ancient Slavs (Razmislek o etnični identiteti v arheologiji Slovanov). − Arheološki vestnik 76, 261–288. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3986/AV.76.02
• ŠTULAR, B., LOZIĆ, E. 2024, Becoming Slav (Archaeological Evidence): Agricultural Anti-Revolution and Acculturation in the Eastern Alps. − In: B. Štular, M. Lehner, M. Belak (ur./eds.), Settlement of the Eastern Alps in the Early Middle Ages, Opera Instituti Archaeologici Sloveniae 48, 85–99. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3986/9789610508786_06
• ŠTULAR, B., LOZIĆ, E. 2023. Executable Map Paper (EMaP) for Archaeological LiDAR. − Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology, 6/1), 79–95. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/jcaa.106
• ŠTULAR, B., LOZIĆ E., EICHERT S. 2023, Interpolation of airborne LiDAR data for archaeology, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 48, 103840. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.103840
• ŠTULAR, Benjamin, LOZIĆ Edisa 2022, Airborne LiDAR data in landscape archaeology. An introduction for non-archaeologists. – Journal it - Information Technology 64/6, 2022.
• ŠTULAR, Benjamin 2022, Scientific Dissemination of Archaeological Interpretation of Airborne LiDAR-derived Data. − In: K. Gartski (ur.), Critical Archaeology in the Digital Age, Proceedings of the 12th IEMA Visiting Scholar Conference, Cotsen Digital Archaeology Series 2, 111−122.
• ŠTULAR, B., EICHERT S, LOZIĆ E. 2021, Airborne LiDAR Point Cloud Processing for Archaeology. Pipeline and QGIS Toolbox, Remote Sensing 13/16, 2021, 3225. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13163225
• ŠTULAR Benjamin, LOZIĆ Edisa, EICHERT Stefan 2021, Airborne LiDAR-Derived Digital Elevation Model for Archaeology, Remote Sens. 13/9, 2021, 1855; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13091855.

• PROGRAMME: Archaeological research (2022−2027) (research programme • January 1, 2022 - December 31, 2027)
• Geospatial information technologies for resilient and sustainable society (GeoAI) (July 1, 2025 - June 30, 2028)
• AI4Europe (July 1, 2022 - December 31, 2025)
• Identifying quarries in the Roman Pannonia (October 1, 2022 - September 30, 2025)
• Religiopolitics - the Imperium Christianum and its Commoners (REPLICO) (international research project • May 1, 2023 - April 30, 2026)
• TETRACHs (September 1, 2022 - August 31, 2025)
• Geospatial Information Technologies for Resilient and Sustainable Society (GeoAI) (fundamental project • July 1, 2025 - June 30, 2028)
• Carnium and Carneola. The central settlement and its surroundings between antiquity and the Middle Ages (October 1, 2023 - September 30, 2026)
• Advanced digital methods in archaeology (bilateral project • January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2024)
• Digital Archaeology of a Slovenian Hillfort Landscape (bilateral project • July 1, 2022 - June 30, 2024)
• SEADDA - Saving European Archaeology from the Digital Dark Age (March 4, 2019 - March 3, 2023)
• ARIADNEplus (January 1, 2019 - December 31, 2022)
• Methodological Maturity of Airborne LiDAR in Archaeology - Pilot Project (MALiAp) (October 1, 2019 - September 30, 2022)
• Settlement of the south-eastern Alpine region in the Early Middle Ages (November 1, 2018 - October 31, 2022)
• At the contact between the Alps and Mediterranean – continuity and turning points (July 1, 2019 - June 30, 2022)
• Artefacts and landscapes. Structured Iron Age communities in the Notranjska region (May 1, 2017 - April 30, 2020)
• PROGRAMME: Archaeological research (2015−2021) (research programme • January 1, 2015 - December 31, 2021)
• ARKWORK - Archaeological practices and knowledge work in the digital environment (February 26, 2016 - October 5, 2020)
• Sanctuaries (July 1, 2014 - February 28, 2018)
• Ariadne (February 1, 2013 - January 31, 2017)
• The Župna Cerkev Cemetery in Kranj (July 1, 2011 - December 31, 2015)
• CAMAA (January 15, 2013 - January 14, 2015)
• The Krvavec cultural heritage - preparation of tourist product and its management (applied project • January 1, 2007 - December 31, 2009)
• Computer-aided archaeological database of the Early Medieval artefacts (applied project • May 1, 2006 - April 30, 2008)
• Early non-agrarian settlements as focal points of idea and knowledge transfer in mediaeval Europe (applied project • January 1, 2007 - December 31, 2008)
• Long Lasting Development of the Protected Areas - A Wholistic Approach and the Active Role of the State (interdisciplinary project • October 1, 2006 - September 30, 2008)

Teaching

• 2022→ "The Wolves and the Caesars: Digital Landscape Archaeology in Slovenia. Archaeological field school teaching survey, excavation, LiDAR, and photogrammetry”, co-director
• 2017→ Assistant Professor, Course principal of the Archaeology of the Early Medieval period, Postgraduate School of ZRC SAZU
• 2017→ Assistant Professor, Course principal of the Landscape archaeology, Postgraduate School of ZRC SAZU
• 2019-2020 – Assistant Professor, Course holder of the Spatial archaeology - archaeology in landscape. Methods and practice of studying Medieval landscapes in archaeology (20S 561.422), University of Graz, Graz, Austria
• 2017–2019 Assistant Professor: Medieval and Post-Medieval Archaeology, University of Ljubljana/ Faculty of Arts, Department of Archaeology/ Slovenia
• 2016 − Guest lecturer: LiDAR data in archaeology, Institute of Archeology, University of Graz, Graz, Austria
• 2015 Guest lecturer: LiDAR data in archaeology, University of Arkansas, USA
• 2014 CENDARI TNA Research Fellow for Digital humanities, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

Awards and recognitions

• 2023: Excellence in Science, article Migration of Alpine Slavs and machine learning: Space-time pattern mining of an archaeological data set, Plos One 17/9 2022
• 2022: Excellence in Science, Open LiDAR Toolbox OLiT: Remote Sensing 13/16, 2021, 3225
• 2021: Excellence in Science, Airborne LiDAR-Derived Digital Elevation Model for Archaeology: Remote Sensing 13/9, 2021, 1855
• 2008: Researchers Exchange Program Exchange Award (British Council)
• 2005: Scholarship for the most successful young researcher at the ZRC SAZU

Professional memberships

• member of the Editorial Committee of the Arheološki vestnik
• member of the Editorial Committee of the Opera Instituti Archaeologici Sloveniae
• member of the Editorial Committee of the E-Monographiae Instituti Archaeologici Sloveniae

Other

• 2022 TRAIL 2022, Chief co-organizer, member of Organizing committee, member of Scientific Committee / Slovenia
• 2018 TRAIL 2018, Chief co-organizer, member of Organizing committee, member of Scientific Committee / Slovenia
• 2016 TRAIL 2016, member of Scientific Committee / France
• 2014 TRAIL 2014, member of Scientific Committee / France
• 2014 Computer applications and quantitive methods in archaeology (CAA), session co-chair (Archaeology in the Woods: New Technologies, New Perspectives sensing)