Curriculum Vitae

DATE OF BIRTH

28/01/1980 Liege, Belgium

EDUCATION

Since September 2007	PhD student in the Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology PhD project: "The emergence of bladelet production in Early Upper Palaeolithic assemblages from the Anuy river valley, Siberian Gorny Altai"
November 2006	University College of London Ma in Archaeology Dissertation: "Bladelet production during the Middle-Upper Palaeolithic transition in the Altai region ( Siberia): Critical, theoretical and methodological reflections on the contribution of technological analyses"
June 2004	University of Liège, Department of Art History and Archaeology Graduate (licence), with distinction Mémoire: " Les steppes nord-pontiques durant le Pléniglaciaire supérieur : Réflexions sur la variabilité des industries et sur la problématique des ensembles aurignacoïdes"
September 2001	University of Liège , Department of Art History and Archaeology Candidat, with distinction

2011: Tolbor 16 & 17, Northern Mongolia, co-director (with S. Gladyshev & B. Gunchinsuren)
2009: Excavation in Kostenki 14, Russia(dir. A. Sinitsyn)
2007-2009: Belgo-Russian project in Uzbekistan, field assistant and artifact analysis at Kulbulak open-air site (dir. D. Flas, K. Kolobova) and at Dodekatym II (dir. A. I. Krivoshapkin)
Yafteh Cave, Early Upper Palaeolithic, Luristan Province, Islamic Republic of Iran, 2005
Grotte du Trou Al’Wesse, Modave, Middle and Upper Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic, 2003-2006
Fortification of Pont-de-Bonne, protohistoric to Middle Ages 2004, 2007
Isernia la Pineta, Italy, region of Molise, Lower Paleolithic, 2002
Northern Morocco Paleolithic Project, 2002
Rue Pierreuse, , Liège, Middle Ages/ modern period, archaeology of architecture, 2001
Grotte de Sclayn, Andenne, Middle Paleolithic, 2000, 2001

August 2004 to October 2005

Archaeologist
Service of Prehistory, University of Liège

Employed to :

2004-2006

Assist in the excavation and analysis of the site of Trou Al'Wesse.

2005

Yafteh Cave, Luristan, Iran : Early Upper Palaeolithic, Test-Pit

Leakey Foundation Research Grant (2011): New excavation at Tolbor 16 and Tolbor 17 Paleolithic sites (Mongolia)

Stage CNRS-Conseil Général de la Dordogne Technologie de la Pierre Taillée Préhistorique et Expérimentation, Eyzies de Tayac-Sireuil, 22th September to 2nd October 2008 (dir. P.-J. Texier)