Postdoctoral Research Fellow for Mali and Senegal
Éloïse is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University College London, Institute of Archaeology.
After a Master’s degree in archaeology with a dissertation in Egyptology from Paris IV-Sorbonne and having become aware of the importance of training in computer tools as a support for research, Éloïse studied for a Master’s degree in ‘archéomatique’, or archaeological computing at François Rabelais University. This was followed by a PhD in Egyptology (2015) from Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 University. Her doctoral thesis focused on spatial analysis at Saqqâra with the examples of the royal funerary complexes of Netjerikhet and Sekhemkhet – a study that reflects her interest in understanding what humans have achieved and how they have organised their spaces.
Following her PhD, Éloïse proposed a new project called SIGSaqqâra to the Labex ArcHiMedE of the Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 University and took up the post of research engineer on the project. Mainly through publications, the project aims to identify, locate in a GIS and record data about the monuments of the necropolis in order to better understand the spatial occupation of Saqqara from the Predynastic Period to the end of the Old Kingdom, as well as the factors that influenced its development.
All through my career, I’ve had the good fortune to work with many different people from various specialties and teams, including researchers, professors, curators, engineers, technicians and administrators, especially in Egypt and Turkey. Now, as a researcher with the MAEASaM project focused on Mali and Senegal, I’m keen to diversify those experiences and discover new sites, new cultures and a new working team. It’s a fresh challenge in my professional life that I very much relish.
Outside of work, Éloïse enjoys theatre, not just as a member of the audience but as an actor on stage.