Marie Sorensen
Professor
Archaeology
Leiden University
Netherlands
Biography
The Faculty of Archaeology has appointed Dr Marie Louise Sørensen as Professor in Bronze Age Studies in the European Prehistory research group from 1st September 2012. Prof. Sørensen is a Reader in Archaeology at the University of Cambridge (Fellow of Jesus College). Prof. Sørensen (1954) was born in Denmark and graduated from the University of Århus. In 1985 she obtained her PhD at Cambridge on the transition from the Bronze Age to Iron Age in Scandinavia, mainly based on metal finds in that region. Since her PhD she has held various positions associated with the Department of Archaeology in Cambridge. In 2011 she was appointed as University Reader.
Research Interest
In terms of field projects she works together with colleagues from the Forging Identities project on an excavation in Hungary (Tell Szazalombatta), in which Leiden students will be able to participate. Together with her husband, who is the head of the Cambridge Archaeological Unit (the Cambridge version of Archol BV), she also works in the Cape Verde Islands. The last project is in line with the new ERC Synergy Programme of Prof. Hofman.
