Her PhD thesis, supervised by Colin Renfrew, was entitled Society and culture in the Mycenaean world: an analysis of mortuary practices in the Argolid, Thessaly and the Dodecanese.
[1] Sofia Voutsaki held a Lectureship in Archaeology in the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge, from 1993 to 2003, during which time she was also a senior fellow at Newnham College.
Since 2003 she has worked in the Faculty of Arts in the University of Groningen, becoming Professor of Greek Archaeology in 2011.
[1] She is a member of the Dutch Institute at Athens,[2] has directed projects on the Middle Helladic Argolid[3][4] and on the Argos tumuli,[5] and is currently the director (with Adamantia Vasilogamvrou) of the excavation of the Northern Cemetery at Ayios Vasileios, Sparta, and of the surface survey of the surrounding area.
[9][10][11] Voutsaki is an expert on the Middle Helladic period and on mortuary archaeology in particular,[12][13][14][15] and in 2015 delivered a keynote address on 'Death, disembodiment and immateriality: some reflections on recent developments in mortuary theory and methodology' at the 22nd Archaeology & Theory Symposium.