Stefan Ardeleanu is postdoctoral research associate at the RomanIslam-Center at the University of Hamburg. His main fields of research are urbanism in pre- and early Roman in, as well as Late Antique funerary inscriptions from North Africa, stone monuments of Roman Germany, Late Antique commemorative rituals in funerary contexts and modern perceptions of antiquity. He has published books on ancient Numidia and on a museum collection of Roman stone monuments in Mannheim, as well as many contributions to small finds, inscriptions and funerary contexts from Roman to Late antique North Africa and the Germanies.