Dr. Philipp Grassel
”As a scientist specialising in underwater archaeology and maritime archaeology and with a strong interest in maritime history, I cannot imagine a better place to work than the German Maritime Museum. Likewise, interdisciplinary research and the communication of science particularly appeals to me at the German Maritime Museum.“
Dr. Philipp Grassel, research assistant, postdoc
About the person
Philipp Grassel is a research assistant/ postdoc specialised in historical archaeology, maritime archaeology and underwater archaeology. He holds a PhD from the University of Kiel and has taught as a lecturer at the University of Bremen. His research fields include shipwrecks, sunken landscapes, harbours and scientific diving. At the DSM, he has already been involved in the project Between North Sea and the Norwegian Sea: Interdisciplinary Studies on the Hanseatic League and has worked as a research assistant in the EU-funded project North Sea Wrecks. Within this project, he was able to co-curate the travelling exhibition Toxic Legacies of War - North Sea Wrecks, among others. In the current project Looking in From the Edge (LIFTE), which is a cooperation project between German and British research institutions, Philipp Grassel both supervised the underwater archaeological work and co-curated the exhibition Immer Weiter - Die Hanse im Nordatlantik.
Research project
Looking In From The Edge (LIFTE) The impact of international commercialization on north-west Europe’s peripheral communities 1468-1712: production, commerce and consumption in Orkney and Shetland
Curriculum Vitae
Since 2021 | Research assistant at the German Maritime Museum |
2018 - 2021 | Research associate at the University of Bremen and the German Maritime Museum |
2013 - 2017 | Doctorate at the Institute of Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology of the Christian-Albrechts-University (CAU) Kiel |
2016 - 2017 | Research assistant in the research project "Between North Sea and North Sea: Interdisciplinary Studies on the Hanseatic League", located at the German Maritime Museum |
2013 - 2016 | PhD student at the Institute of Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology at the University of Kiel. Supported by the Graduate School “human development in landscapes” |
2015 - 2018 | Work as a research diver in various archaeological and interdisciplinary cooperation projects of the CAU zu Kiel, the Archaeological State Office of Schleswig-Holstein and the Institute of Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology of the Christian-Albrechts-University (CAU) Kiel |
2014 | Training as European scientific diver at the University of Kiel |
Publications
Bergmann et al
North Sea Wrecks - An interdisciplinary approach towards understanding the risks posed by wrecks containing munitions in the North Sea, European Workshop on Maritime Systems Resilience and Security 2022 (MARESEC 2022), Bremerhaven, Germany.
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Zwei Ziegelwracks in der Kieler Außenförde? Der Fund der MALIK und des 2-Anker Wracks, AiS, 18, 2020, 25-38
S. Bergmann/ P. Grassel Mikroplastik und TNT: unterschiedliche Regime der Problematisierung von Meeresmüll, WerkstattGeschichte, 85, 2022, 55-75.
P. Grassel/F. Otte/S. Bergmann
Militärische Altlasten im Meer: ein gefährliches Erbe. Das Projekt North Sea Wrecks, Nachrichten des Marschenrates zur Förderung der Forschung im Küstengebiet der Nordsee, 58, 2021, 13-18.
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R. Edvardsson/P. Grassel
The Potential of Underwater Archaeology in the North Atlantic, in: N. Mehler (Ed.) Between the North Sea and the Norwegian Sea. Interdisciplinary studies of the Hanseatic League (in press)
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Die späthansezeitliche Schifffahrt im Nordatlantik vom 15. Jahrhundert bis zum 17. Jahrhundert. Das maritim-archäologische Potenzial hansischer Handelsplätze auf den Shetland Inseln, den Färöer Inseln und Island anhand archäologischer und historischer Quellen (Dissertation, Universität Kiel, 2017)
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Late Hanseatic seafaring from Hamburg and Bremen to the North Atlantic Islands. With a marine archaeological excursus in the Shetland Islands, Skyllis, 15.2, 2015, S. 172-182
P. Grassel und J. Loose
“Wo sind all die Schiffe hin?” Mittelalterliche Wrackhölzer vom Fundplatz Stralsund-Frankenhof, in: F. Huber/S. Kleingärtner (Eds.) Gestrandet-Versenkt-Versunken. Faszination Unterwasserarchäologie (Hamburg/Neumünster 2014) 175-193
Memberships
Working Group on Maritime and Limnetic Archaeology (AMLA) of the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel
German Society for Archaeology of the Middle Ages and Modern Times (DGAMN)
German Society for the Promotion of Underwater Archaeology (DEGUWA)