Since 2008, shortly after completing my PhD, I have been working as a freelance archaeologist specializing in the study of ancient technology and provenance, primarily of Neolithic and Bronze Age pottery found at sites in the Aegean. I am specialist in pottery thin section analysis/petrography. Among my research interests is the identification of the raw materials used in the ancient pottery production. For this, I collect and process raw materials suitable for pottery manufacture and, after experimentation, I try to replicate prehistoric clay pastes.

Since 2010, I have also been working as a potter and I am the creator of Jasper Handmade Ceramics (see my Facebook and Instagram pages) providing pottery making courses. I produce handmade pottery inspired by Greek prehistory and I love to make burnished vessels. As an experimental archaeologist involved in archaeological research projects, I conducted forming analysis of prehistoric pottery and I reproduced pots as replicas of prehistoric vessel types which were used in experiments. For the needs of my research, I fire my pottery in open-air firings or in wood-firing kilns. For a number of scientific archaeological research projects where I executed petrographic analysis and studied ancient pottery technology and provenance, please refer to my page on Academia.
 

Selection of research projects in which I participated as experimental archaeologist:

• Talking about goblets: an experimental approach. The case of Pheneos, Greece (together with M. Zavadil).
• Reproductions of experimental vessels and archaeological research: preliminary results in the study of Minoan perfumery (under the direction of B. Rueff, member of the French School at Athens).
• Approaching pottery burnishing through experimental firings.