Work tasks
As data curator, I work on building and implementing workflows that facilitates collection and retention of clean, structured, and accessible data, both in digitisation of existing material, and in the creation of born-digital data. The aim is to provide support and flexible solutions for curatorial tasks, research and analysis, and outreach, as well as aligning the Museum’s public data with international standards and FAIR principles. A particular focus is placed on spatial analysis and geographic information system (GIS).
Research interests
My research is centred on survey archaeology and ceramic studies (including petrography) in the Mediterranean, where I have taken part in a range of survey and excavation projects (Italy, Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Tunisia, Morocco), with research foci spanning from the Early Bronze Age to the Medieval period. In my PhD, I combined landscape and ceramic data from five field survey projects in the Central Cyclades, investigating habitation, activity and networks in the Late Roman and Early Medieval period.
I strongly believe in the importance of being both in the field and in the (digital) lab in order to gain a broad understanding of data, and have a keen interest in digital field recording, and in developing integrated solutions for post-field work analysis, combining GIS, 3d data and tabular/database resources.
Background
My academic background is in Classics and Mediterranean Archaeology, with a focus on survey archaeology in the Aegean. I did my undergraduate degrees at the University of Oslo, and hold master’s degrees from Oslo and Cambridge. I received my PhD from the University of St Andrews in 2020. I have spent extended periods of time at the Norwegian institutes in Athens and Rome, and at the British School at Athens, where I also worked as IT Officer. Before joining the Museum of Cultural History in October 2022, I was a postdoctoral research fellow in GIS and Spatial Archaeology with the ERC project EverydayIslam at University College London.