Thilo Rehren is A. G. Leventis Professor of Archaeological Sciences at The Cyprus Institute. He has been actively researching archaeometallurgy for over 35 years, and teaching it since 1999 when he joined the UCL Institute of Archaeology as Professor for Archaeological Materials and Technologies. He moved to Cyprus in 2017 to take up the inaugural Chair in Archaeological Sciences, and establish materials-science based archaeometallurgical research on the ‘copper island’.

Prior to moving to UCL he worked for ten years at the Deutsches Bergbau-Museum in Bochum, Germany. His research covers most metals and alloys of antiquity up to the early modern period, with particular emphasis on reconstructing processes of primary production and understanding the role of crucibles in metallurgy.

He has published widely, and supervised nearly 40 doctoral students, many of whom are now leading researchers in their field.