Current roles:

- assisting the lab director in thin sectioning work, both research and commercial, to maintain the very well known ‘brand’ of the McBurney Lab whose services are regularly sought by many other researchers in the UK, Europe and world-wide.

- soil, stone, shell, lithic and pottery thin section slide production (from c. 400 to 500 thin sections per year)

- responsible for the WB B5 and 4.2 lab equipment, waste disposal and re-cycling of consumables; the FTIR and fluorescence microscope kit in WB 4.2 lab; geoarchaeology laboratory consumables spending and budget

- development and writing of new and updated protocols for the making of thin sections of soils, and new protocols for stone, lithics, pottery, shell and bone

- mentoring and individual training of at least 15 MPhil/PhD students and 10 post-doctoral researchers, from Cambridge and elsewhere

- organisation, coordination and guidance of the undergraduate field-trips to Serbia in 2016 and Montenegro in 2018

- organisation of a future undergraduate field-trip to Croatia, planned for Easter, 2021

- coordination and running of the undergraduate Training Excavation with the CAU from 2008 to present

- assisting (the lab director) with the development and coordination of a new collaborative research project with Prof S. Peric and the Institute of Archaeology, Belgrade, at the Neolithic settlement site of Drenovac, Serbia

- assisting in EU/Erasmus project application with Prof P. Novakovic of the University of Ljubljana for geoarchaeological and fieldwork training in several countries of the former Yugoslavia

Work experience:

2011-present: Chief Research Laboratory Technician - Geoarchaeology, McBurney Laboratory for Geoarchaeology, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge

2008-2011: Research Technician - Geoarchaeology, McBurney Laboratory for Geoarchaeology, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge

2011- 2018: Consultant Archaeologist, Ove Arup & Partners International Ltd, Koridor X (E 75 and E 80 motorway routes), Serbia during

2011: Researcher and project coordinator for Bosnian case study in the project ‘Cultural Heritage and the Reconstruction of Identities after Conflict'/ CRIC (PI Prof Marie Louise Stig Sørensen, University of Cambridge, a 4-year international comparative project funded by the European Union to investigate the destruction of cultural heritage during armed conflict and its role in post- conflict reconstruction, at five European locations (France, Spain, Germany, Bosnia and Cyprus)

2006-present: Co-director of following projects:

1- ‘Palaeolithic of Northern Bosnia’ (PI Dr Preston T. Miracle, University of

Cambridge; British Academy funded and supported by Bosnian

Heritage and National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina)

2- ‘Geoarchaeological investigations of the River Sava Valley’ (PI Dr Charly French, University of Cambridge; British Academy funded and supported by Bosnian Heritage and National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina)

3- ‘Neolithization of Europe’ (PI Dr Marc Vander Linden, University of Leicester; EU funded and supported by Bosnian Heritage and National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina)

4- ‘Origins of European civilization’ (PI Dr Preston T. Miracle, University of Cambridge; British Academy funded and supported by Bosnian Heritage and National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina)

2007-2008: Assistant Supervisor, Cambridge Archaeological Unit

2006: Graphics Assistant, Cambridge Archaeological Unit

2005-2007: Senior Site Assistant, Cambridge Archaeological Unit

1989-1998 Curator, Department of Archaeology, Museum of Mining and Metallurgy, Bor (Serbia)

1988-1989: Curator, Cultural Centre, Tešanj (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

1986-1988 Archaeological Consultant, Department of Archaeology, University of Belgrade

Main Archaeological Field Projects Directed and Managed:

In the projects (of many more) itemised below, his duties included: project planning and phasing, financial management, management of the excavation and post-excavation phases.

2007 Excavation of Palaeolithic sites in Northern Bosnia, Bosnia and Herzegovina (summer campaign)

2007 Field survey of Northern Bosnia Region (spring campaign)

2006 Excavation of Palaeolithic sites in Northern Bosnia, Bosnia and Herzegovina (summer campaign)

2006 Field survey of Northern Bosnia Region (spring campaign)

2005 Excavation of early Neolithic sites in Danube Gorge region, Iron Gates, (Serbia)

2004 Field Survey of Iron Gates Region (Serbia)

1998 Excavation of the Bronze Age site Borsko Jezero in collaboration with the Centre for Archaeological Research, University of Belgrade (Serbia)

1995-1996 Excavation of Roman site of Kraku Lu Jordan, Kučevo, (Serbia)

1994-1997 Excavation of the Late Neolithic site Kapetanova Pecina, Majdanpek (Serbia)

1994-1997 Excavation of the Prehistoric site of Kameni Rog, Majdanpek (Serbia)

1994-1997 Excavation of the Roman site of Kamenjar, Majdanpek (Serbia) 1989-1997 Survey of the Bor and Majdanpek regions (Serbia) 

1993-1995 Excavation of the prehistoric site of Panjevacki rit, Jagodina, (Serbia) 1988-1989 Survey of Tešanj region, Bosnia and Herzegovina

1992-1993 Excavation of the Praurija site, Majdanpek (Serbia)

1991 Excavation of Bronze Age site of Feudvar, (Serbia)

1988 Excavation of Paleolithic site of Trebačko brdo, Tesanj

1987-1997 Excavation of the Roman site of Gamzigrad (Felix Romuliana), Zaječar, (Serbia)

1988 Excavation of the medieval site of Svac, Ulcinj (Montenegro)

 1986-1988 Excavation of the site of Bioče (Montenegro)

1986-1988 Survey of the Morača river valley (Montenegro)

1986 Excavation of the Palaeolithic site of Stolac-Badanj (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

1985 Excavation of rock shelter site in Tešanj, Stari Grad, Bosnia and Herzegovina

1984-1985 Excavation of Palaeolithic and medieval site of Stari Grad, Tešanj, Bosnia and Herzegovina