Senior Research Scientist & Director, Yale Initiative for the Study of Ancient Pyrotechnology

EXPERIENCE
Present Positions
DIRECTOR
RESEARCH FACULTY & LECTURER (SECONDARY APPOINTMENT)
Department of Anthropology, Yale University • Principal Investigator (PI) of the Yale University Archaeological Laboratories
Hired as Associate Research Scientist in 2017, promoted to Research Scientist in 2019 and Senior Research Scientist in 2025
Please note that Yale reserves the term Research Professor as a title exclusively for emeritus tenured ladder faculty who wish to continue applying for research grants. Consequently, the ranks for research faculty members at Yale are Associate Research Scientist, Research Scientist, and Senior Research Scientist, which are roughly equivalent to the ranks of Assistant Research Professor, Associate Research Professor, and Research Professor, respectively, at other institutions.
CURATORIAL AFFILIATE
Anthropology Division, Peabody Museum of Natural History
FACULTY
Council on Archaeological Studies & Council on Middle East Studies, Yale University
CO-EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports
Past Positions
2017-2018
SENIOR RESEARCH ASSOCIATE
Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota
2016
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR (TEMPORARY)
Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota
2015-2016
RESEARCH FELLOW
Department of Anthropology, Harvard University
2015-2016
POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE
Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota
2014
RESEARCH ASSOCIATE
Institute for Rock Magnetism, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Minnesota
2014
VISITING RESEARCHER
The Role of Culture in Early Expansions of Humans, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, University of Tübingen
2012-2014
MARIE SKŁODOWSKA-CURIE EXPERIENCED RESEARCH FELLOW
Department of Archaeology, Archaeology and Archaeological Science Research School, University of Sheffield
2011-2013
GRADUATE FACULTY (ADVISING)
Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota
2011
LECTURER
Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota
2001-2011
RESEARCH ASSOCIATE / SENIOR FELLOW / FELLOW / ASSISTANT
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Minnesota — Hired as a half-time Research Assistant in 2001; promoted to a full-time Research Fellow in 2003, Senior Research Fellow in 2008, and Research Associate in 2010