I am an archaeologist and assyriologist specialising in the early history and archaeology of the Middle East (ca. 3,000 - 0 BCE). My formal education includes advanced degrees in Assyriology from the University of Copenhagen (BA 2009, MA 2012) and a doctorate in Archaeology from the University of Durham (PhD 2017). I have held a variety of teaching and research positions in Denmark, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Sweden, and participated in multiple archaeological expeditions across the Middle East, including as assistant director of three field projects.

From 2020-23, I was the research coordinator and Co-PI of Geomapping Landscapes of Writing (GLoW) at Uppsala University Department of Linguistics and Philology, leading the development of an innovative mixed-methods geographical and chronological survey of the 500,000 inscribed artifacts that make up the cuneiform corpus. As of 2025, I am a researcher with Echoes of History (DESCRYPT), a multidisciplinary, collaborative research programme involving researchers from Sweden, Oslo, Germany, Spain, and Hungary. The project is generously funded by the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation Programmes for 2025-32 (grant no. M24-0028).

My primary research focus lies at the intersection of archaeology, epigraphy, and digital humanities computing. I take a dedicated interest in the development and deployment of digital tools and research databases as a means to explore novel approaches to the role of writing in early human history. In particular, I am interested in how regional and superregional perspectives on the materiality of writing may aid our understanding of the production and consumption of text in early complex societies.

I am an associate and catalogue editor of the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), the global reference index for cuneiform inscriptions, and a co-editor of Cuneiform Digital Library Notes. In this capacity, I am also the Co-PI and project coordinator of the Access to Cuneiform Texts (ACT), a ground-breaking effort to develop an Arabic-language user interface of the CDLI to bring back, through digital means, a critical part of Middle East cultural heritage now spread all over the world.

Courtesy of my experience as a field archaeologist, I am also engaged in the processing and publication of various excavation projects, including the Islamic Jarash Project (2002-2013) of the University of Copehagen, the Late Antique Jarash Project (2011-) of the University of Edinburgh. Together with Professor Julian Reade, I am currently preparing the results of the Tal’Afar Survey (1968-73) of the British Institute for the Study of Iraq.