Michael Rathmann has been Professor of Ancient History at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. His research activity focuses on roman infrastructure and roman administrativ structure, geography in classical antiquity, and Hellenistic historeography.
Michael Rathmann is member of the Topoi research projects (C-5-7) Common Sense Geography and the Peutinger Map and (B-1-6) Die bildliche Darstellung von Raum in der Tabula Peutingeriana: Aneignung durch Kartographie?.