Meet Alexandre!

Alexandre is a member of the PaleoMIX team at the University of York. He is the chemistry research technician at BioArCh. He has a License in History of Art and Archaeology and a Maitrise in Prehistory from Paris 1 University. In 2007 he was awarded his PhD from the University of Rennes 1 in Archaeology and Archaeometry where he explored Prehistoric culinary practices using organic residues analysis. Prior to taking up this role in March 2023, he worked as a Marie Curie fellow and postdoctoral researcher at the University of York specializing in Organic Residues Analysis (GC-MS and GC-c-IRMS analysis of lipids) of archaeological materials, notably early pottery.