
Research Assistant, Assistant Professor
+386 1 47 06 392
elozic@zrc-sazu.si
Edisa Lozić is an early career researcher. She was a recipient of a prestigious Zois Phd scholarship and completed her PhD in Classical Archaeology with a grade of 10/10 in 2013. Until 2018 she held various positions in commercial archaeology and in 2018-2019 she was a manager of an international project at National Museum of Slovenia and between 2019 and 2021 she was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Graz. She is currently a research assistant with PhD at the ZRC SAZU, Institute of archaeology. She is the author of a scientific monograph book and author or co-author of 9 articles in respected international journals.
Education and training
- B. Sc. in Archaeology, 2008, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana.
- Accomplished transition to PhD study recognized as an equivalent od MA in archaeology by University of Ljubljana (31.9. 2010)
- Ph. D. in Archaeology, 2013, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana.
Research interests
- Classical archaeology
- Spatial archaeology (archaeological applications of GIS and LiDAR data).
Scientific stays
- 2019−2021 : Post-doctoral education at the University of Graz (Institute of Classics / Institut für Antike), Austria.
- 2010−2011: Institut Français' Charles Nodier grant (2010-2011): 8 months of post-graduate specialisation at the MSHE C.N. Ledoux., Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon, France. Charles Nodier grant (Institut français de Slovénie)
Short term scientific stays
- 2016: Maison de l’Archéologie, Université Bordeaux Montaigne (France).
- 2013: Institut für- Ur. und Frühgeschichte, Universität Wien (Austria). 2012: Laboratoire Chrono–environnement - UMR 6249 CNRS-UFC, Université de Franche-Comté (France).
- 2010: Fornleifastofnun Íslands (The Institut of Archeology), Reykyavik (Ickeland).
- 2009: Visual and Spatial Technology Centre, University of Birmingham (Great Britain).
Teaching
- 2022→ "The Wolves and the Caesars: Digital Landscape Archaeology in Slovenia. Archaeological field school teaching survey, excavation, LiDAR, and photogrammetry”, so-direktor/co-director (https://wolves-caesars.com/project-staff/)
- 2016 − Guest lecturer: LiDAR data in archaeology, Institute of Archeology, University of Graz, Graz, Austria.
Organising International Meetings
- 2022 TRAIL 2018, Chief co-organizer, member of Organizing committee, member of Scientific Committee / Slovenia (https://trail.zrc-sazu.si/)
- 2018 TRAIL 2018, Co-organizer, member of Organizing committee, member of Scientific Committee / Slovenia (https://trail.zrc-sazu.si)
Recognitions and awards
- 2022: Excellence in Science, Open LiDAR Toolbox OLiT
- 2021: Excellence in Science, Airborne LiDAR-Derived Digital Elevation Model for Archaeology
Scientific monographs
- LOZIĆ, Edisa, Funerary Monuments in the Interior of the Roman Province of Dalmatia. – E-monographiae Instituti archaeologici Sloveniae, 11, 2021. 978-961-05-0097-1. ISBN 978-961-05-0541-9. https://zalozba.zrc-sazu.si/p/V116.
- LOZIĆ, Edisa, Proizvodnja nagrobnih spomenikov v notranjosti rimske province Dalmacije. – E-monographiae Instituti archaeologici Sloveniae, 9, 2018. 978-961-05-0097-1. ISSN 2335-2930. https://zalozba.zrc-sazu.si/p/1524.
Selected aricles
2021−2023
- 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
- LOZIĆ, Edisa, ŠTULAR, Benjamin, GONZÁLEZ-CASTAÑÉ, Gabriel, AI-on-Demand (AIOD) platform and its uses for cultural heritage. CAA2023 [Elektronski vir] : 50 years of synergy: Amsterdam, 3-6 April 2023 : abstract book (Str. 161-162). COBISS.SI-ID - 150659331 https://2023.caaconference.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2023/04/abstract_book_v13.p
- ŠTULAR, B., LOZIĆ E., EICHERT S. 2023, Interpolation of airborne LiDAR data for archaeology, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 48, p.p. 103840. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.103840
- Štular, B., Lozić, E., Belak, M., Rihter, J., Koch, I., Modrijan, Z., Magdič, A., Karl, S., Lehner, M., Gutjahr, Ch. 2022, Migration of Alpine Slavs and machine learning: Space-time pattern mining of an archaeological data set, Plos One, September 2022, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0274687
- ŠTULAR, Benjamin, LOZIĆ Edisa, Airborne LiDAR data in landscape archaeology. An introduction for non-archaeologists. – Journal it - Information Technology, july 2022.
- ŠTULAR, B., EICHERT S, LOZIĆ E., Airborne LiDAR Point Cloud Processing for Archaeology. Pipeline and QGIS Toolbox, Remote Sensing 2021, 13, no. 16: 3225. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13163225
- LOZIĆ Edisa, Application of Airborne LiDAR Data to the Archaeology of Agrarian Land Use. The Case Study of the Early Medieval Microregion of Bled (Slovenia). − Remote Sens. 2021, 13, 3228. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13163228.
- ŠTULAR Benjamin, LOZIĆ Edisa, EICHERT Stefan, Airborne LiDAR-Derived Digital Elevation Model for Archaeology, Remote Sens. 2021, 13(9), 1855; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13091855.
- LOZIĆ, E., ŠTULAR, B. 2021, Documentation of Archaeology-Specific Workflow for Airborne LiDAR Data Processing, Geosciences 2021, 11(1), 26; https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences11010026
2019–2020
- ŠTULAR, B., E. LOZIĆ 2020, Comparison of Filters for Archaeology-Specific Ground Extraction from Airborne LiDAR Point Clouds. – Remote Sensing 2020 (12), DOI: 10.3390/rs12183025.
- LAHARNAR, B., E. LOZIĆ, A. MIŠKEC 2020, Gradišče nad Knežakom. – In: J. Horvat, I. Lazar, A. Gaspari (eds.), Manjša rimska naselja na slovenskem prostoru / Minor Roman settlements in Slovenia, Opera Instituti Archaeologici Sloveniae 40, 2020, 123–140.
- LAHARNAR, B., E. LOZIĆ 2019, Ulaka and Nadleški hrib (Slovenia) : sites of military conflict from the last decades BC. – In: E. Strigberger (ed.), Fachgespräch "Schlachtfelder: Fundstellen und Denkmale" am 23. August 2018, Mauerbach (Niederösterreich), Fundberichte aus Österreich, Bd. 56 (2017), 62–66. [COBISS.SI-ID - 10197088].
- LAHARNAR, B., E. LOZIĆ, B. ŠTULAR 2019, A structured Iron Age landscape in the hinterland of Knežak, Slovenia. – In: D. C. Cowley, M. Fernández-Götz, T. Romankiewicz & H. Wendling (eds.). Rural Settlement. Relating buildings, landscape, and people in the European Iron Age (Leiden 2019: Sidestone Press), 263–272. [COBISS.SI-ID - 9811040].
2015−2018
- LOZIĆ, E., I. RIŽNAR 2018, The use of limestone in the Roman province of Dalmatia. – In: D. MATETIĆ POLJAK, K. MARASOVIĆ, Katja (eds.), ASMOSIA XI : interdisciplinary studies of ancient stone : Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference of ASMOSIA, Split, 18-22 May 2015. Split: Arts Academy: University of Split, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Geodesy, 915-923, ilustr., zvd. [COBISS.SI-ID 46022189].
- ŠTULAR, B., E. LOZIĆ 2016, Primernost podatkov projekta lasersko skeniranje Slovenije za arheološko interpretacijo: metoda in študijski primeri. – In: GERŠIČ, Matjaž (ed.), GIS v Sloveniji 13: Digitalni podatki, 157–166, Ljubljana.
- LAHARNAR, B., E. LOZIĆ 2016, Roman battlefield archaeology: case study Grad near Šmihel pod Nanosom and Nadleški hrib (SW Slovenia). – Schield von Steier 27, 60–71. [COBISS.SI-ID 9393248].
- DJURIĆ, B., L. GALE, E. LOZIĆ, I. RIŽNAR 2015, On the edge of the known : the quarry landscape at Podpeč = Na robu znanega : kamnolomska krajina v Podpeči. – In: JANEŽIČ et al (eds.), Nova odkritja med Alpami in Črnim morjem = New discoveries between the Alps and the Black Sea : rezultati raziskav rimskodobnih najdišč v obdobju med leti 2005 in 2015 = results from the Roman sites in the period between 2005 and 2015 : zbornik 1. Mednarodnega arheološkega simpozija, Ptuj, 8. in 9. oktober 2015 = proceedings of the 1st International Archaeological Conference, Ptuj, 8th and 9th October 2015 : in memoriam Iva Mikl Curk. Spletna izd. Ljubljana: Zavod za varstvo kulturne dediščine Slovenije, 2018. Str. 77-87, ilustr., zvd. Monografije CPA, 6. ISBN 978-961-6990-37-0. ISSN 2630-208X. http://www.zvkds.si/sl/kategorija-publikacije/e-knjige. [COBISS.SI-ID
Before 2010
- LOZIĆ, E. 2009, Roman stonemasonry workshops in the Ig area / Rimske klesarske delavnice na Ižanskem. – Arheološki vestnik 60, 207–221[COBISS.SI-ID 30736685].
- LOZIĆ, E., B. ŠTULAR 2007, Od arheologije grobišč proti arheologiji o smrti. Analiza arheoloških raziskav grobišč v Arheološkem vesniku. – Arheo 24, 2007, 69–79. [COBISS.SI-ID 27609901]
Undergraduate degree
LOZIĆ, Edisa 2008. Rimski lapidarij v Iški vasi v kontekstu krajinskega parka Barje (Roman lapidarium in the Iška vas in the context of landscape of the Ljubljansko barje Nature Park) : Diplomsko delo. Ljubljana: 2008. 193.
Doctoral dissertation
LOZIĆ, Edisa 2013. Arheološka analiza rimskodobne kamnoseške produkcije v notranjosti rimske province Dalmacije (Archaeological analysis of stonemasonry production in the Roman Province of Dalmatia ): doktorska disertacija. Ljubljana.
Lectures
Making Archaeological LiDAR More Accessible: Why and How (https://iza2.zrc-sazu.si/en/dogodki/making-archaeological-lidar-more-accessible-why-and-how-0). − 15 February 2023, on-line seminar, organiser Museum of London Archaeology as part of a research project TEtrARCHs, accessible at: https://www.tetrarchs.org/index.php/2023/01/28/february-2023-our-first-tetrarchs-seminar/.
Web article
E. Lozić 2020, Stone supply in the Interior of the Roman Province of Dalmatia: A methodological approach (Forum Archaeologiae - Zeitschrift für klassische Archäologie 94 / III / 2020).
Computer programme
EICHERT, Stefan, ŠTULAR, Benjamin, LOZIĆ, Edisa. Open LiDAR Toolbox. Version 2.0. Wien: NHM; [Ljubljana]: ZRC SAZU; Graz: University, [2021]. https://github.com/stefaneichert/OpenLidarToolbox. [COBISS.SI-ID 73783811] funded by: ARRS, Project, N6-0132, SI, Metodološka zrelost zračnega laserskega skeniranja v arheologiji - pilotni projekt (Methodological Maturity of Airborne LiDAR in Archaeology - Pilot Project (MALiAp))
Archeological Exhibition
LOZIĆ, Edisa, ŠTULAR, Benjamin, LAHARNAR, Boštjan. Okno v prazgodovinsko krajino Knežaka in Ilirske Bistrice : Archeological Exhibition National Museum of Slovenia, Ljubljana, 29. 10. 2015 – 8. 2. 2016. [COBISS.SI-ID 9162336].
AI4Europe (01. july 2022 - 31. december 2025)
Identifying quarries in the Roman Pannonia (01. october 2022 - 30. september 2025)
TETRACHs (01. september 2022 - 31. august 2025)
Digital Archaeology of a Slovenian Hillfort Landscape (bilateral project • 01. july 2022 - 30. june 2024)
Religiopolitics - the Imperium Christianum and its Commoners (REPLICO) (international research project • 01. may 2023 - 30. april 2026)
Advanced digital methods in archaeology (bilateral project • 01. january 2023 - 31. december 2024)
SEADDA - Saving European Archaeology from the Digital Dark Age (04. march 2019 - 03. march 2023)
Methodological Maturity of Airborne LiDAR in Archaeology - Pilot Project (MALiAp) (01. october 2019 - 30. september 2022)
Settlement of the south-eastern Alpine region in the Early Middle Ages (01. november 2018 - 31. october 2022)
Artefacts and landscapes. Structured Iron Age communities in the Notranjska region (01. may 2017 - 30. april 2020)
Promoting research for sustainable use of cultural heritage resources in mountainous areas. Consolidation of databases for archaeology of South-Eastern Alpine region (01. january 2018 - 31. december 2019)
Between the Sava and the Drava Rivers, the lands of tradition and the lands of transition (01. january 2014 - 31. december 2015)