Since September 2020 Professor for Medieval Archeology at the University of Tübingen

2018-2019 Professor (§99) for Historical Archaeology at the Institute for Prehistory and Historical Archaeology at the University of Vienna

2015-2018 Junior Research Group Leader at the German Maritime Museum Bremerhaven, Leibniz-Institute of Maritime History

2015 Marie Slodovska-Curie Incoming Fellowship, Zukunftskolleg University of Konstanz (declined)

2014-2015 Visiting Professor of Historical Archaeology at the Institute of Prehistory and Historical Archaeology at the University of Vienna

2014 Habilitation, Venia Legendi, University of Vienna

2008-2014 University Assistant at the Institute for Prehistory and Historical Archaeology at the University of Vienna

2008 Doctorate at the Institute for Pre- and Early History, Kiel University

2002-2006 Research assistant at the Romano-Germanic Commission of the German Archaeological Institute, Ingolstadt Research Center

2000-2002 Research assistant at the Icelandic Archaeological Institute (Fornleifastofnun Íslands) in Reykjavík

2001 Magister Artium (Archaeology of the Middle Ages and Modern Times) at the University of Bamberg

Awards

2020 John L. Cotter Award in Historical Archaeology

2017 Caroline-von-Humboldt-Preis

Since 2017 Honorary Reader, Institute for Northern Studies, University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI)

Positions

Member of ESF College of Expert Reviewers (Horizon 2020)

Advisor in the Mediävistenverband (Department of Medieval Archaeology)

Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Niedersächsischen Instituts für historische Küstenforschung (NIhK), Wilhelmshaven

Medieval Europe Research Community (MERC) of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA), Committee member 

Society of Historical Archaeology (USA), Committee member

Society for Medieval Archaeology (GB), Member of the International Advisory Board

Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology (GB), Council Member since 2014

Associate Editor for the journal Historical Archaeology

Editorial Board Member of the publication North Atlantic World

Monographs

S. Semple / A. Sanmark / F. Iversen / N. Mehler, Negotiating the North. Meeting Places in the Middle Ages in the North Sea Zone. Society of Medieval Archaeology Monographs 41 (London 2020).

N. Mehler, Der Matzleinsdorfer Friedhof von Wien (1784-1879). Fokus Denkmal 9 (Wien 2017).

J. Coolen / N. Mehler, Excavations and Surveys at the Law Ting Holm, Tingwall, Shetland. An Iron Age settlement and medieval assembly site. BAR British Series 592 (Oxford 2014).

N. Mehler, Tonpfeifen in Bayern (ca. 1600–1745). Zeitschrift für Archäologie des Mittelalters, Beiheft 22 (Bonn 2010).

Editorship

N. Mehler / M. Gardiner / E. Elvestad (Hrsg.), Hanseatic trade in the North Atlantic: Interdisciplinary perspectives. Arkeologisk museum Stavanger Varia 27 (Stavanger 2019).

A.  Brooks / N. Mehler (Hrsg.), The Country Where My Heart Is. The Historical Archaeology of Nationalism and National Identity (Gainesville 2017).

A. Sanmark / F. Iversen / N. Mehler /S. Semple (Hrsg.), Debating the Thing in the North II. Selected papers from workshops organized by The Assembly Project. Journal of the North Atlantic, Special Volume 8, 2015.

A. Sanmark / F. Iversen / N. Mehler /S. Semple (Hrsg.), Debating the Thing in the North I. Selected papers from workshops organized by The Assembly Project. Journal of the North Atlantic, Special Volume 5, 2013.

N. Mehler (Hrsg.), Historical Archaeology in Central Europe. Society of Historical Archaeology, Special Publications No. 10 (Rockville 2013).

Historische Archäologie (open-access Zeitschrift, www.histarch.org), alle Jahrgänge seit 2009.

Peer-reviewed articles and book chapters

L. Werther / N. Mehler / G. Schenk / Chr. Zielhofer, On the Way to the Fluvial Anthroposphere - Current Limitations and Perspectives of Multidisciplinary Research. Water 2021, 13(16), 2188. https://doi.org/10.3390/w13162188

N. Mehler, Warum wir mehr Archäologie des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit an den Universitäten brauchen. Archäologische Informationen 43, 2020, https://doi.org/10.11588/ai.2020.1.81398

M. Gardiner / N. Mehler, Introduction: German trade in the North Atlantic. In: N. Mehler / M. Gardiner / E. Elvestad (eds), German trade in the North Atlantic (c. 1400-1700). Interdisciplinary perspectives (Stavanger 2019) 9-24. Open Access. 

N. Mehler / G. Ólafsson / B. Holterman / J. Coolen / R. Edvardsson / T. Brorsson, Gautavík - a trading site in Iceland re-examined. In: N. Mehler / M. Gardiner / E. Elvestad (eds), German trade in the North Atlantic (c. 1400-1700). Interdisciplinary perspectives (Stavanger 2019) 259-275. Open Access. 

D. Wilken / T. Wunderlich / P. Feldens / J. Preston / J. Coolen / N. Mehler, Investigating the Norse harbour of Igaliku (Southern Greenland) using an integrated system of side scan sonar and high resolution refletion seismics. Remote Sensing 2019, 11(16), 1889.

J. Preston / D. Sanderson / T. Kinnaird / A. Newton / M. Nitter / J. Coolen / N. Mehler / A. Dugmore, Dynamic beach response to changing storminess of Unst, Shetland: impacts on landing places exploited by Norse communities. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 15/2, 2020, 153-178.

N. Mehler / S. Kristjánsdóttir / R. Kluttig-Altmann, The sound of silence. A ceramic horn and ist role in monasticism in late medieval Iceland. Early Music 46/4, 2018, 551–560.

M. Brandl / M. M. Martinez / C. Hauzenberger / P. Filzmoser / P. Nymoen / N. Mehler, A multitechnique analytical approach to sourcing Scandinavian flint: Provenance of ballast flint from the shipwreck "Leirvigen 1", Norway. PlosOne 13(8): e0200647.

N. Mehler / T. Brorsson / J. Linaa / R. Gartley, Moravian ceramics on St Croix, the Virgin Islands. Post-Medieval Archaeology 52/3, 2018, 405-408.

N. Mehler, Clay Tobacco Pipe Research in Germany and Historical Archaeology, a difficult relationship. Historical Archaeology 52, 2018, 454-466.

A. Brooks / N. Mehler, Kilts and Lederhosen. The historical archaeology of nationalism in Scotland and Bavaria. In: A. Brooks / N. Mehler (eds). The historical archaeology of nationalism and national identity (Gainesville 2017) 3-37. 

M. Beaudry / N. Mehler, The material culture of the modern world. Post-Medieval Archaeology 1/50, 2016, 108-120.

N. Mehler, The Sulphur Trade of Iceland from the Viking Age to the End of the Hanseatic Period. In: I. Baug, J. Larsen, S. Samset Mygland (eds), Nordic Middle Ages - Artefacts, Landscapes and Society. Essays in Honor of Ingvild Øye on her 70th Birthday. University of Bergen Archaeological Series 8 (Bergen 2015) 193-212.

N. Mehler, Þingvellir: A Place of Assembly and a Market? Journal of the North Atlantic, Special Volume 8, 2015, 69–81.

N. Mehler, Marine trade and transport related crafts and their actors: people without archaeology? In: S. Ashby, I. Baug & G. Hansen (eds), Everyday Products in the Middle Ages: Crafts, Consumption and the Individual in Northern Europe c. 800-1600 (Oxford 2015) 360-375.

J. Coolen / N. Mehler, Surveying the assembly site and churches at Þingeyrar. Archaeologia Islandica 11, 2015, 11–32.

N. Mehler / M. Gardiner, On the Verge of Colonialism: English and Hanseatic Trade in the North Atlantic Islands. In: P. Pope / S. Lewis-Simpson (eds), Exploring Atlantic Transitions: Archaeologies of Permanence and Transience in New Found Lands. Society of Post-MedievalArchaeology Monograph 8 (Woodbrige 2013) 1–15.

N. Mehler, Breaking new ground: Historical Archaeology in Central Europe. In: N. Mehler (Hrsg.), Historical Archaeology in Central Europe. Society of Historical Archaeology Special Publications No. 10 (Rockville 2013) 11–31.

N. Mehler, Globalisation, Immigration, and Transformation. Thoughts from a European Perspective. Historical Archaeology 47, 2013, 38–50.

M. Gardiner /N. Mehler, Excavations at the hanseatic trading site at Gunnister, Shetland. Post-Medieval Archaeology 44/2, 2010, 347–349.

N. Mehler, The archaeology of mercantilism: clay tobacco pipes in Bavaria and heir contribution to an economic system. Post-Medieval Archaeology 43/2, 2009, 261–281.

N. Mehler, The perception and identification of hanseatic material culture in the North Atlantic: problems and suggestions. Journal of the North Atlantic Special Volume 1 (Historical Archaeology in the North Atlantic: World Systems, Colonialism, and Climate), 2009, 89–108.

M. Gardiner / N. Mehler, English and Hanseatic Trading and Fishing Sites in Medieval Iceland. Report on Initial Fieldwork. Germania 85, 2007, 385–427.

N. Mehler, Die bronzene Ringkopfnadel aus Hofstaðir, Island. Germania 81, 2003, 289–296.

Other articles and book chapters

N. Mehler, Historical Archaeology of Europe. In: Ch. Orser / A. Zarankin / P. Funari / S. Lawrence / J. Symonds (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Global Historical Archaeology (New York 2020) 780-798.

N. Mehler / S. Krabath / R. Kluttig, Neue Zeiten. In: E. Bánffy / Ph. von Rummel / K. Hofmann (Hrsg.), Spuren des Menschen. 800 000 Jahre Geschichte in Europa (Darmstadt 2019) 445-470.

C. Theune / B. Hausmair / R. Bernbeck / N. Mehler, Die Archäologie des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts. In: E. Bánffy / Ph. von Rummel / K. Hofmann (Hrsg.), Spuren des Menschen. 800 000 Jahre Geschichte in Europa (Darmstadt 2019) 470-493.

N. Mehler, Island und Grönland zur Zeit des Adam von Bremen – eine archäologische Spurensuche. Denkmalpflege in Bremen 16, 2019, 68–82.

B. Arndt / U. Halle / U. Ickerodt / B. Jungklaus / N. Mehler / U. Müller / M. Nawroth / H.-W. Peine / C. Theune / M. Wemhoff, Leitlinien zu einer Archäologie der Moderne. Blickpunkt Archäologie 4/2017, 236–246.

2021 DFG priority program on "Auf dem Weg zur fluvialen Anthroposphäre", together with PD Dr. Lukas Werther (University of Tübingen), Prof. Dr. Christoph Zielhofer (University of Leipzig) und Prof. Dr. Gerrit Schenk (TU Darmstadt)

2020 bis 2025 Heisenberg-Professur of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

2020 bis 2023 Reseach project "Looking in from the edge (LIFTE)", funded by the DFG and AHRC

2015 bis 2018 Reseach project and Junior research group "Zwischen Nordsee und Nordmeer: Interdisziplinäre Studien zur Hanse", funded by the Leibniz-Gemeinschaft

2012 bis 2019 Reseach project "Harbours in the North Atlantic (c. 800-1300 AD) (HaNoA)" in the DFG Priority Program SPP 1630 Ports from the Roman Imperial Period to the Middle Ages

2010 bis 2013 Reseach project The Assembly Project (TAP) – Meeting places in Northern Europe AD 400-1500, funded by HERA (Humanities in the European Research Areas), together with Prof. Dr. Frode Iversen (Universität Oslo), Prof. Dr. Alexandra Sanmark (University of the Highlands and Islands) and Prof. Dr. Sarah Semple (Durham University)