
Research Associate, Assistant Professor
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elozic@zrc-sazu.si
Edisa Lozić is a research associate, Principal Investigator of the GENNI project, and Principal Project Investigator of the AI4Europe and TETRACHs projects. She was the recipient of the 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 managed an international project at the National Museum of Slovenia. From 2019 to 2021, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Graz. She is the author of a scientific monograph and has authored or co-authored several 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
- Course principal of Digital Archaeology at the Podiplomska šola ZRC SAZU
- 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
2024
- LOZIĆ, E., Methodology: Archaeological LiDAR and GIS Analysis of the Early Medieval Settlements. − In: B. Štular, M. Lehner, M. Belak (ur.), Settlement of the Eastern Alps in the Early Middle Ages. − Opera Instituti Archaeologici Sloveniae 48, 2024, 19−24. doi: https://doi.org/10.3986/9789610508786_02
- LOZIĆ, E., KOCH, I., Soil, Water, and Topography: Decoding Settlement Location Preferences in Early Medieval Leibnitzer Feld (Austria). In: B. Štular, M. Lehner, M. Belak (ur.), Settlement of the Eastern Alps in the Early Middle Ages. − Opera Instituti Archaeologici Sloveniae 48, 2024, 25−52. doi: https://doi.org/10.3986/9789610508786_03
- LOZIĆ, E., Agricultural Dynamics of Bled Microregion (Slovenia). − Opera Instituti Archaeologici Sloveniae 48, 2024, 53−72. doi: https://doi.org/10.3986/9789610508786_04
- ŠTULAR, B., LOZIĆ, E., Becoming Slav (Archaeological Evidence): Agricultural Anti-Revolution and Acculturation in the Eastern Alps. − Opera Instituti Archaeologici Sloveniae 48, 2024, 85−100. doi: https://doi.org/10.3986/9789610508786_06
- LOZIĆ Edisa, ŠTULAR Benjamin, Airborne LiDAR in Mountain Archaeology. − In: F. Carrer, M. Callanen, P. D. Casa, F. Fontana, S. Reinhold, H. Saul (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Mountain Archaeology, Oxford, 2024. DOI 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197608005.013.18 (https://hal.science/hal-04440479)
- LOZIĆ Edisa, ŠTULAR Benjamin, Low-code and ai-augmented Code for an Archaeological Database: Arkas 2.0. − Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences (published online ahead of print 2024). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/24523666-bja10037
- LOZIĆ Edisa, ŠTULAR Benjamin, Archaeological LiDAR in Mediterranean Karst Landscapes. A Multiproxy Dating Method for Archaeological Landscape and a Case Study From Prehistoric Kras Plateau (Slovenia). − Archaeological Prospection, 2024, Online Version of Record before inclusion in an issue, 1−19.DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/arp.1954
2021−2023
- LOZIĆ Edisa, ŠTULAR Benjamin, Fluent but Not Factual: A Comparative Analysis of ChatGPT and Other AI Chatbots' Proficiency and Originality in Scientific Writing for Humanities. − Future Internet 15, 336.DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/fi15100336.
- 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
Benjamin ŠTULAR & Edisa LOZIĆ, Data Conversations Made Easy: an overview for cultural heritage. − Data conversations made easy. On the event in the Atrij ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana, 27 May 2024.
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 programmes/Tools
- BmyRAG. Data Conversations Made Easy
- ArkasAI Data Analyst. Analyse archaeological sites of Slovenia
- OLiT-T. Open LiDAR Toolbox Tutor
- 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 (July 1, 2022 - December 31, 2025)
Identifying quarries in the Roman Pannonia (October 1, 2022 - September 30, 2025)
TETRACHs (September 1, 2022 - August 31, 2025)
Digital Archaeology of a Slovenian Hillfort Landscape (bilateral project • July 1, 2022 - June 30, 2024)
Religiopolitics - the Imperium Christianum and its Commoners (REPLICO) (international research project • May 1, 2023 - April 30, 2026)
Advanced digital methods in archaeology (bilateral project • January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2024)
SEADDA - Saving European Archaeology from the Digital Dark Age (March 4, 2019 - March 3, 2023)
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)
Artefacts and landscapes. Structured Iron Age communities in the Notranjska region (May 1, 2017 - April 30, 2020)
Promoting research for sustainable use of cultural heritage resources in mountainous areas. Consolidation of databases for archaeology of South-Eastern Alpine region (January 1, 2018 - December 31, 2019)
Between the Sava and the Drava Rivers, the lands of tradition and the lands of transition (January 1, 2014 - December 31, 2015)