Elena Basso | elena.basso@metmuseum.org
Associate Research Scientist, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Projects: Archaeological Excavations at Kınık Höyük
Federico Carò | Federico.Caro@metmuseum.org
Research Scientist, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Projects: Turquoise Mining and Exchange in Pre-Modern Central Asia
Special Skills & Interests: Inorganic materials and techniques employed in artistic production; mineralogical, petrographic, and geochemical characterization of geological materials; conservation; provenance
Lorenzo Castellano | lc2995@nyu.edu
Postdoctoral Lecturer, Department of Anthropology and ISAW | Archaeobotany Lab, NYU
Projects: Archaeological Excavations at Kınık Höyük | Archaeobotany at NYU and Agriculture in Ancient Anatolia | Production, Subsistence, Exchange, and Environment at Kimirek-Kum-1 (KK1): Excavations and archeo-scientific analyses in the old Zerafshan delta during the Final Bronze / Early Iron Age Transition | Bash-Tepe (Uzbekistan) | Dandanakan (Turkmenistan)
Special Skills & Interests: Archaeobotany; Environmental Archaeology; Coring, sampling, and paleoenvironmental field research; CRM archaeology; topographic survey methods
Emily Frank | ebf252@nyu.edu
Objects Conservator | PhD Candidate in Ancient Studies, ISAW | Adjunct Lecturer
Projects: Antefixa Project | Archaeological Exploration of Sardis
Special Skills & Interests: Image-based documentation, computational imaging, 3D modeling, multispectral imaging, basic microscopy; elemental and chemical analysis
Dominic Pollard | dp3704@nyu.edu
Visiting Assistant Professor 2022-24, ISAW
Projects: Lyktos Archaeological Project | Bays of East Attica Regional Survey
Special Skills & Interests: GIS
Karen Rubinson | kr987@nyu.edu
Research Associate, ISAW
Special Skills & Interests: Archaeology of the South Caucasus; visual analysis; pottery technology
Anna Serotta | anna.serotta@metmuseum.org
Associate Conservator, Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art | Guest Lecturer, The Conservation Center
Projects: The Metropolitan Museum of Art excavation at Dahshur, Egypt | Northwest Bolsena Archaeological Project in Valle Gianni, Italy.
Dongming Wu | dw1798@nyu.edu
Visiting Assistant Professor 2022-24, ISAW
Projects: Craft Production at Sujialong in SouthChina in the first millennium BCE | Mining Community in the Southeastern Hubei in Bronze Age China | Ancient Chinese Bronzes in the Collection of Columbia University
Jing Zhang | jz6676@nyu.edu
Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Anthropology
Special Skills & Interests: Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing; Surveying and Mapping Engineering; 3D Computer Vision, Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence for Archaeology