Eleftheria Paliou is Professor of Archaeoinformatics (Digital and Computational Archaeology) at the Institute of Archaeology and Director of the Cologne Digital Archaeology Laboratory (CoDArchLab). Eleftheria Paliou’s research experience in Computational Archaeology covers a wide range of computer applications, especially in the areas of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), 3D modelling and analysis, spatial analysis and statistics, network analysis (urban network analysis, spatial interaction models), and computer simulation. Her work is more broadly concerned with the relationship between spatial and social organisation in prehistoric and historical cultures, and the ways in which past societies conceptualise and ascribe meanings to their environments. In recent years she has led projects looking into the relationship between spatial and socio-economic organisation in prehistoric and historic cultural landscapes by combining computer simulation that uses ‘site prediction’ regression-based techniques and spatial interaction modelling that draws from entropy-maximizing methods. Such an approach aims at capturing persisting patterns in ancient settlement data that are likely to reveal underlying structures, even in the presence of highly fragmented and incomplete datasets, which constitute a common problem in archaeological research. More recently, she has also led projects that integrate Computational Archaeology with Indigenous traditional ecological knowledge so as to advance agent-based simulations of hunter-gatherer societies. Such models aim to explore the interplay between ecological changes and foraging decisions and examine aspects of environmental sustainability and biodiversity that are relevant to past hunter-gatherer groups, as well as modern populations living in similar landscapes.