Aleks Pluskowski is Professor of Medieval Archaeology at the University of Reading (UK). With a background in zooarchaeology, his research focuses on the relationships between nature and culture in medieval Europe and beyond.
Whilst maintaining an interest in human-animal relations in the past, he has led a number of projects using environmental archaeology to investigate the palaeoecology of frontier societies; in particular, those associated with or impacted by crusading. Having worked across the eastern Baltic Sea region for over a decade, as well as in Scandinavia, north Italy, Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Romania, the Levant and the western Indian Ocean, in recent years his research has focused on the cultural landscapes of medieval frontiers in Iberia and the French eastern Pyrenees.
He leads the Climate, Resilience and Sustainability research cluster at Reading, is a committee member of the Medieval European Research Community (MERC) and editor of the journal Medieval Archaeology.