1999-2003

PhD in Egyptian Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, University College London, Social Transformation in the Delta from the Terminal Predynastic to the Early Dynastic period: a comparative study.  

1997-1998

MA in Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, University College London, Dissertation topic:The Social Distribution of Wealth at the Terminal Predynastic-Early Dynastic site of Kafr Hassan Dawood (Nile Delta).

1993-1996

BA (Honours), Ancient History and Egyptology, Department of History/Institute of Archaeology, University College London.

Since 2010

Junior Professor of Egyptian Archaeology, Ägyptologisches Seminar, Freie Universität Berlin.

2009-2010

Scientific collaborator in the Egyptian Antiquities Department of the Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels and co-director of excavations at the southern Egyptian site of Elkab.

2006-2009

Research Fellow at the Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art at the University of Oxford.  Egyptologist for the ‘Egyptian Chronology Project’, a project concerned with synchronising scientific dating (radiocarbon) with the historical chronology.

2007-2009

Tutor and course co-ordinator (July 2007 and July 2009) for week long courses on the history of Egyptology and excavation in Egypt (2007) and the Nile Delta (2009); Oxford University Summer School for Adults.

2004-2007

Course co-ordinator and lecturer for adult education courses: ‘Pre- and Early Dynastic Egypt’, ‘The Nile Delta’ and ‘Culture and Society in Ancient Egypt’; Department of Continuing Education, University of Oxford.

2004-2005

Course co-ordinator and lecturer for under-graduate level course on ‘The Archaeology of Pre- and Early Historic Egypt’; Faculty of Continuing Education, Birkbeck College, University of London.

1999-2006

Temporary and part-time lecturer on both BA and MA Egyptian Archaeology courses; course co-ordinator and main tutor of the artefact-based course ‘Investigating Egyptian Artefacts’ in the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology (2005-2006); Institute of Archaeology, University College London.