Olivier is an Archaeologist and Egyptologist currently completing a PhD on Egypt’s Early Dynastic Elite. His main interest is analysing the mortuary remains of the Predynastic and Early Dynastic periods of ancient Egypt (c. 4000-2545 BC) and the applications of archaeological theory towards their sociocultural interpretation. He has participated in archaeological fieldwork projects in Siem Reap (Angkor), Cambodia; Katoomba, Australia; not to mention the sites of Abu Rawash and Dendera in Egypt.