Robert Rollinger

is Professor of Ancient History and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Innsbruck

Robert Rollinger was Finland Distinguished Professor at the Department of World Cultures, University of Helsinki (Research Director of the project “Intellectual Heritage of the Ancient Near East”) (2011–2015), Chair of the Project “Melammu. The intellectual Heritage of Assyria and Babylonia on East and West“, and Invited Getty Scholar (2019). He holds the NAWA chair at the University of Wrocłav, Poland, acting as Head of the international project “From the Achaemenids to the Romans: Contextualizing empire and its longue-durée developments“ (2021–2025). He is member of the Academia, Europaea and full member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. His main research areas are the history of the Ancient Near East and the Achaemenid Empire, contacts between the Aegean World and the Ancient Near East, ancient historiography, and the comparative history of empires.