Ann Brysbaert is Professor of Ancient Technologies, Materials and Crafts in the Department of Archaeological Sciences at the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University (The Netherlands) where she is also Director of Research. From 2015-2020, she serves as Principal Investigator of the ERC (CoG) project SETinSTONE on monumental architecture and ancient economies. She has authored numerous papers, a monograph (Power of Technology in the Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean. The Case of Painted Plaster, 2008), and four edited volumes on topics about ancient technologies and social practices (painted plaster, pyrotechnological and related crafts, architectural energetics), the last one appearing in 2018. She is currently finalizing her second monograph on her sub-project of the Tracing Networks project which she initiated in 2007 (together with Lin Foxhall) and of which she was Principal Investigator between 2008-2014 (Leverhulme Research Grant).
Affiliation as of June 2025: Professor of Ancient Technologies, Materials and Crafts in the Department of Archaeological Sciences of the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University; Director of The Netherlands Institute at Athens – University of Amsterdam.
Email (Leiden): a.n.brysbaert@arch.leidenuniv.nl
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