Zimmermann, Thomas: - Dirk Brandherm is Reader in Prehistory at Queen's University Belfast and current President of the UISPP's Metal Ages commission. His research interests are primarily concerned with exploring the dynamics of societal change in later prehistory, particularly in the Chalcolithic and in the Bronze and Iron Ages of Western Europe and the Mediterranean. Thomas Zimmermann graduated from the University of Regensburg, where he completed his studies in Pre- and Protohistory, European Ethnology and Classical Archaeology. For his PhD project on Copper Age daggers he was based at the Romisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum in Mainz. In 2003, he succumbed to oriental lure and moved to Turkey, where he is currently appointed as Associate Professor at the Department of Archaeology of Bilkent University.