Peter Talloen (°Bruges-Belgium, 1974) studied Archaeology at the University of Leuven, Belgium. His doctoral research at the same university (PhD 2003) focused on the religious practices in ancient Pisidia (SW Turkey) from the Hellenistic to the Byzantine period. During his postdoctoral study of the Christianisation of Pisidia at Leuven (2003-2006), he specialised in the Christianisation of space and material culture. After research fellowships of the British Institute of Archaeology in Ankara (2011-2012) and the Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations of Koç University in Istanbul (2012-2013) he returned to Leuven as a postdoctoral researcher (2013-2018), to study the urbanisation process at the city of Sagalassos, as well as the religious life of its inhabitants. Between 2019 and 2023, he was Assistant Professor of Classical Archaeology at the Süleyman Demirel University in Isparta. Since 2023, he is Assistant Professor at the Department of Archaeology at the Bilkent University in Ankara, where he became Chair in 2024. As long-standing member of the Sagalassos Project, he became co-director responsible for the excavations in 2018 and in 2023 assumed the directorship of the excavations and restorations at the ancient city of Sagalassos in Southwest Türkiye.