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Board of Trustees

Jean-Olivier Gransard-Desmond – President

• PhD in Archaeology
• Specialist in human-animal relations
• Member of the EEA (European Association of Archaeologists)
• President and co-founder of ArkéoTopia

You would like to know more about him. The communication service investigates and reveals ArkeoTopia’s creation in this interview in French.

Christiane Angibous-Esnault – General Secretary

• In charge of internal and external communication
• Communications officer, Events specialist
• General Secretary and Co-Founder of ArkéoTopia

A co-worker unlike others turned to archaeology after agrochemistry and the pharmaceutical industry. Discover how a post as communications officer can lead to getting involved in archaeology (in french) and find more about her on her personnal web site www.angibous-esnault.fr.

Margarida Ataïde – Administrator

• PHD in Archaeology
• Specialist in medieval funerary archaeology
• Sworn translator and interpreter

Combining my passion and my profession, I joined ArkeoTopia as a translator volunteer in 2019. I also contribute to the WikiTopia Archives program. I particularly appreciate its edutainement projects and popularization of archeology as well as its international expansion to disseminate science outreach in a broader view.

Théo-Txomin Quirce – Administrator

• Granted from a double Master in archaeology
• Current studies in Archives and archive professions at Poitiers

I joined the association in April 2020 as an archeological technician on the Artefacts project. This activity allowed me to propose other projects for the association both in science and in the popularization of research, which led me to wish to support it as an administrator.

Dominique Rochard – Administrator

• Retired from public relations, events and sponsorship in a big firm

I joined Arkeotopia from the beginning of the adventure, mostly for friendship, but since I really took a pleasure to this fascinating discipline. I help the association in various areas: translation, administration, proofreading and field actions.

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ArkéoTopia’s Activity Leaders

Sylvain Rey

• archaeologist (Master)
• Specialised in french medieval period
• Science ambassador for Archaeology Secrets and ArkeoKids

 

Élodie Rotté

• archaeologist (Master) and trained in science education in particular for archaeology
• Specialised in Iron Age and beginning of hellenic period in Egypt and around
• Science educator for ArkeoKids

 

Being keen on history and archaeology, I joined ArkéoTopia with great interest: another way for archeology, offering a different approach to archeology from that practiced in France, and passionate activities. I bring my viewpoint and my knowledge to ArkéoTopia, cultivated by varied experiences and digs in France and abroad.