I first became interested in the history of the Ancient Near East when I was young, before starting in 2000 to study archaeology at the University of Toulouse. In 2003, I went to Paris (Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne University) to continue my studies and to specialize in Eastern archaeology. I finally got there my ph. D. in 2011.
During all these years, except for some fieldworks in Russia, Turkmenistan or in Uzbekistan, it is my participation between 2006 and 2009 to the important excavations led in the area of Jiroft (in Kerman province, in south-eastern Iran) which truly initiated me to the archaeology of the Ancient Near-East. At the same time, I fell in love with Iran and its culture !