Emad Matin

is a trained field archaeologist whose research focuses on cultural interactions in the Western Asia during the 1st millennium BC. The main interests of his research lie in landscape, urbanism, architecture, construction techniques and iconography of the said period. He poses particular emphasis on artistic evidence related to the ideological framework that led to the formation of the Achaemenid empire.

After defending his PhD in 2018 at the Department of Cultural Heritage, with a thesis on early Achaemenid architecture, he was awarded three research fellowships in the same department. The focus of the three fellowships is on the decorated bricks of the Achaemenid monumental gate of Tol-e Ajori (2019-2022), on the reconstitution of the archive of the IsMEO mission from 1964 to 1979 in Persepolis (2022-2024), and on archaeological sources for the study of human settlement along the northern coast of the Persian Gulf (since 2024).