Heritage Science Core Group leader and WG 2: Conservation leader, LINXS Fellow

Mikael Fauvelle, Researcher at the Archaeology Department, Lund University, Sweden.

Mikael Fauvelle is an archaeologist interested in the origins of complex economic systems. His research focuses on understanding how technological innovation spurred the development of long-distance trade networks and facilitated the formation of systems of social inequality. To map ancient exchange systems, he has employed non-destructive scientific methods including infrared spectrometry, pXRF, and synchrotron XRF. He is currently the director of the Complex Canoes project, which is using new scientific methods including SXRF to study museum collections of Bronze Age sewn plank boats. Other recent projects include research on the origins of money, trade systems in ancient Mesoamerica, and long-term resilience in maritime hunter-gatherer societies.

Heritage Science Core Group member and WG 1: Fieldwork and Collections leader, LINXS Fellow

Björn Nilsson, Head of Department at the University Museum of Bergen, Norway.

Dr Nilsson is a landscape and marine archaeologist with extensive experience in scientific and public strategies for contracting archaeology and cultural heritage. Nilsson is the Head of Department at the University Museum of Bergen. He was previously the scientific coordinator of LUARCH, a novel infrastructure linking archaeology to LU’s scientific laboratories, leader of the VR-funded project ‘Blue Archaeology’.

Heritage Science Core Group member and WG 3: Advancing Analysis leader, LINXS Fellow

Susan Nehzati, Researcher, MAX IV Laboratory in Lund and the Museum of Natural History in Stockholm, Sweden.

Dr Nehzati is a chemist and researcher at MAX IV Laboratory in Lund, with research affiliations at the Museum of Natural History in Stockholm. She has expertise in using advanced synchrotron X-ray characterisation methods on complex natural samples to investigate the fate of heavy metals to understand their impact on environmental systems and the health and disease of organisms. She leads an Anna-Greta and Holger Crafoord-funded project investigating the global health of fossil seed ferns from the Triassic-Jurassic extinction event.

Heritage Science Core Group member and WG 4: Quantitative Methods leader, LINXS Fellow

Anna Fedrigo, Imaging Beamline Scientist, Institut Laue-Langevin, France

Dr Fedrigo is a heritage scientist and physicist working as imaging beamline scientist at the Institut Laue-Langevin in Grenoble, France. Her expertise focuses on the application of X-ray and neutron techniques in Heritage Science, spanning from tomography to other non-destructive elemental and compositional techniques for material characterisation. She is currently supervising a project 11 on the investigation of looted metal artefacts from Iran using neutron and lab-based techniques.

LINXS Heritage Science Core Group member and WG 5: Visualisation leader LINXS Fellow

Lucia Mancini, Senior Researcher at the Department of Materials, ZAG (Slovenian National Building and Civil Engineering Institute, Slovenia.

Dr Mancini is a physicist and senior researcher presently working in the Department of Materials of ZAG (Slovenian National Building and Civil Engineering Institute) in Ljubljana. Since 1995, she has been working in the field of synchrotron- and lab-based 2D/3D/4D X-ray imaging using non-destructive approaches. During the last 21 years, she has worked as beamline scientist at the Elettra synchrotron in Trieste (Italy) where she acquired extensive experience in the application of X-ray computed tomography techniques to natural and cultural heritage studies.

Heritage Science Core Group member and WG 6: Communication leader, LINXS Fellow

Courtney Nimura, Museum Curator, Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Oxford, UK.

Dr Nimura is an archaeologist and museum curator at the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Oxford, UK. She specialises in the material culture of the European Bronze and Iron Ages and regularly applies scientific analysis to improve her understanding of the source, composition, and extended biographies of the objects in the Ashmolean’s collection. She is currently the Co-I on a UK Research and Innovation-funded project that explores the use of PIXE analysis on artefacts with pigments.

Guest researcher at LINXS September 2023, LINXS Fellow

Dorian Fuller, Professor of Archaeobotany at University College London, UK.

Dorian Q Fuller is Professor of Archaeobotany at University College London, where he has taught since 2000.  He works on past agricultural systems and plant domestication through archaeological research in several regions, including sub-Saharan Africa, the Near East, South and Southeast Asia and China. He currently has a research grant on the evolution of vegetative agriculture in Ethiopia. He is author of Trees and Woodlands of South India. Archaeological Perspectives and a co-editor of three books, Far From the Hearth (2019), Archaeology of African Plant Use (2014) and Climates, Landscapes and Civilizations (2012). He completed his PhD on The Emergence of Agricultural Societies in South India (1999) at Cambridge University. He received his BA from Yale University (1995) and grew up in San Francisco, California. Prof Fuller is giving a talk at LINXS in September 2023.