Victoria Szafara
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Arch-I-Scan’s 2022 in Review
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Arch-I-Scan Welcomes Dr Tatiana Tyukina
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There’s a New Postdoc in Town… Welcome Zedong Zheng!
Incoming project news! Although Dr. Shuihua (Sharon) Wang remains on the Arch-I-Scan project team as a research associate, we now have a new official Mathematics Postdoctoral Research Associate. The Arch-I-Scan project warmly welcomes Zedong Zheng to the team as our Maths Postdoc. Zedong is coming to us from De Montfort University, just across the city. […]
Aysha Scans: The Summer Intern
Special Guest Blog Post by Aysha Wahid As a self-identified over-achiever, after giving in my last assignment and finally completing my degree, instead of binge-watching The Office like a normal student would, I decided to apply for a finalist summer internship at the University (also partly because I needed the money and partly to avoid […]
Introducing… Dr. Sharon Wang, Postdoctoral Research Associate (Maths) for Arch-I-Scan
In early May, the Arch-I-Scan welcomed Dr. Sharon (Shuihua) Wang as the newest member of our research team. She is taking up the role of Postdoctoral Research Associate (Mathematics), and will be primarily tasked with the development, training and maintenance of the AI image-recognition and machine-learning service. As a means of further introduction, Victoria Szafara, […]
News and New ‘Normals’
Amid a third national lockdown, the Arch-I-Scan team continues with research. Our principal investigator, Professor Penelope Allison has been active on the digital public lecture circuit, sharing research updates to international audiences from her current location in Australia. On Wednesday, 03 February, she delivered a virtual lecture for the Stanford University Archaeology Center’s ‘Distinguished Lecture […]
Celebrating End-of-the-Year Successes
With the start of a new year comes a renewed optimism and hope for better times, and the transition from 2020 to 2021 has been no exception (to say the very least). Still, as we usher in a new year it’s also important to reflect on the good things that happened in the old. In […]
There… and back again: Vindolanda, Week 3
Our third and final week of pottery scanning at Vindolanda got off to an unexpected start; unfortunately, circumstances led our comrade Santos to return home to Leicester, leaving Daan and me to continue collecting data as a duo. Santos was with us in spirit however, as were still able to check in with him over […]
Journey to the Edge of Empire: Notes from Vindolanda Week 1
When the UK government announced the first national lockdown in March, we were only at the very beginning of our pottery-scanning programme, having visited the Museum of London for a few days the previous December, and MoLA (Museum of London Archaeology) for a total of three weeks between February and March. We had plans for […]
Science-Fiction Reality? Artificial Intelligence and Archaeology
Every so often, I’ll get the question, ‘So, have you ever found any dinosaurs?’ Although I’d honestly love to encounter a dinosaur bone or two on an archaeological excavation, as a student of archaeology I have to respond that dinosaurs are generally the realm of the palaeontologist, and what I deal with are the […]
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