About our staff

I obtained my BA and MA (Research) degrees in Mediterranean and Near Eastern Archaeology from the Leiden University, Faculty of Archaeology (2005-2012), after which I conducted my PhD research at the UCL Institute of Archaeology (2012-2016).

My PhD was part of the Marie Curie FP7 funded 'Bridging the European and Anatolian Neolithic (BEAN)' project, which combined archaeology, computational modelling and aDNA research to study the spread of farming to Europe.

More recently I worked as an assistant archaeologist for UCL Archaeology South-East and as an assistant curator of the 'Stonehenge' touring exhibition (UCL, MuseumsPartner GmbH). 

Summary of research interests

• Mediterranean

• Material Culture

• Prehistory

European and Mediterranean Prehistory, Technology and Society, Craft Production, Long-Term Cultural Dynamics, Ceramic Petrography, Material Knowledge, Spread of Farming

My most recent work 'Economies of innovation: tracing the potter's wheel in Iron Age SW Europe' examines the varied levels of adoption of the potter's wheel in southern Europe during the first millennium BCE. I explore the socio-economic conditions underpinning its adoption and study how the potter's wheel transformed the organisation of ceramic production and consumption patterns in the long term. 

I use ceramic petrography to study long-term changes in clay recipes alongside the adoption of the potter's wheel, as well as spatial statistics to examine shifts in settlement and networks before during and after this technological change. 

I collaborate with heritage and university institutions study developments in ceramic technology using petrography and archaeometric methods.

• The adoption of the potter's wheel in NW Iberia (Monte Bernorio, La Loma, El Cerrito), IMBEAC.
• Iron Age ceramic technology at El Castru, Vigaña (Asturias, Spain), Incipit, CSIC.
• Ceramic Technology at the Heuneburg, Landesamt für Denkmalpflege, Stuttgart.

Completed projects:

• Barcin Höyük Excavation Project (ceramic petrography specialist; 2014-2017)
• Ceramic assemblages of Early Neolithic Bulgaria (ceramic petrography; 2012-2016)

'Stonehenge: ancient mysteries and modern discoveries' travelling exhibition (assistant curator).

Tutor for Archaeology 1A

Guest lecturer for Archaeology B1, B2, and Theoretical Archaeology (ARCA10064)

Guest lecturer for The Origins of Agriculture: Reconsidering the Neolithic (Online: PGHC11511)