Professor Ergün Laflı is a classical archaeologist at the Dokuz Eylül University in Izmir, chairs the Division for Medieval Archaeology and is the founding and former director of the Centre of the Archaeology of western Anatolia (EKVAM). He was born in 1975 in Mersin, Turkey. He attended to the Sainte-Pulchérie French School in Istanbul and Tarsus American College, both in Turkey. He holds a B.A. degree from the University of Ankara (1996), a M.A. from the University of Tübingen (1999) and a Ph.D. from the University of Cologne (2003), all in classical archaeology. Since 2006 he edited or co-authored seven books on Hellenistic, Roman and Early Byzantine terracottas, pottery, metal figurines, glass finds and inscriptions from Asia Minor. Between 2005 and 2009 he directed an archaeological field project in Hadrianopolis, a Roman and Early Byzantine site in north-central Turkey. He organized numerous archaeological congresses in Izmir and published various material groups from the Classical Anatolia.