Biography

I was born in France but grew up in the Bay Area in California. I have always been interested in combining social and biological sciences to study past human populations. After completing a BA & BSc in Anthropology and Molecular Biology from McGill University, I studied at University College London to do a MSc in Bioarchaeological and Forensic Anthropology. I then decided to undertake a second MA in Anthropology at San Francisco State University where I researched the feasibility and potentials of carrying out palaeopathological analyses of human remains found in looted Prehispanic communal tombs. My PhD research at Cambridge focuses on reconstructing Middle Preceramic (ca. 7000-6000 BP) lifeways in the Lower Ica Valley of Peru, relying on a comparative osteobiographical approach that integrates archaeological, bioarchaeological, and paleopathological lines of evidence. This project will explore the overall diversity of Preceramic communities' biocultural adaptations to the environment of coastal Peru, including within the contexts of the lomas (fog oases) and the nearby hinterlands.

Previous Education

San Francisco State University Anthropology - bioarchaeology 2023
University College London Bioarchaeology & Forensic Anth 2019
McGill University Anthropology and Biology 2018