Minna Silver

is Adjunct Professor in Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Oulu, Finland

Minna Silver, born in 1961 in Helsinki, studied History and Archaeology (including Museology and Archiving), receiving her MA in 1986, Licentiate in 1993, and PhD in Archaeology with her dissertation "Between Nomadism and Sedentism: Amorites from the Perspective of Contextual Archaeology" in 2000 from the University of Helsinki, where she is Adjunct Professor in Near Eastern Archaeology since 2004. She became GIS-Expert in 1997 and was from 2000‒2010 leader of the SYGIS project in Syria. From 2014‒2015/16 she was tenure-track Professor at Mardin University, Turkey, President of ICOMOS-Finland from 2018 to March 2019, and since 2020 she is Commission I Chairman of CIPA.