Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae

Person-Related Identification Information

• Kevin Salesse, M.Sc., Ph.D.
  Date of birth: March 16, 1987
  Place of birth: Les-Pavillons-sous-Bois (France)
  Citizenship: French
  Sex: Male
  Pronouns: He/Him/His

Department of Anthropology

• Postal address: Department of Anthropology, Masaryk University, Building 2, Office 02008, Kotlářská 2, 611 37 Brno, Czech Republic
  Webpage: https://anthro.sci.muni.cz/en
  Email address: k.salesse@sci.muni.cz
  Phone number: +420 549 496 950

Employment - Position

• Assistant Professor

Education and Academic Qualifications

• 2015: Doctoral degree in Biological Anthropology, University of Bordeaux, France
  2010: Master of Science degree in Biological Anthropology, University of Bordeaux, France
  2008: Bachelor of Arts degree in Archaeology, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
  2008: Bachelor of Arts degree in History, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France

Employment

• 2022 - Present: Assistant Professor, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
  2021 - 2021: Post-doctoral researcher, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
  2018 - 2021: Post-doctoral researcher, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
  2017 - 2018: Scientific officer, European Research Council Executive Agency, Belgium
  2016 - 2016: Post-doctoral researcher, University of South Florida, USA
  

Scientific and Research Areas

• Bioarchaeology
  Graeco-Roman world
  Past diet practices
  Population movements
  Funerary customs
  Biogeochemistry
  Isotope (C, N, O, S, Sr, Pb) & infrared (FTIR) analyses

Fieldwork activities

• Archaeological and Anthropological Experiences:
  - Necropolis of Porta Nocera (Pompeii, Italy), Roman period (1st c. BC-1st c. AD)
  - Catacombs of Saints Peter and Marcellinus (Rome, Italy), Roman period (1st-3rd c. AD)
  - Site of Richeaume XIII (Puyloubier, France), Roman period & Middle Age (1st-9th c. AD)
  - Site of Kichary Nowe (Kichary Nowe, Poland), Neolithic & Bronze Age
  - Site of Sains-en-Gohelle (Sains-en-Gohelle, France), Middle Age (10th-13th c. AD)
  - Site of the Grotte de Cottés (Saint-Pierre-de-Maillé, France), Upper Paleolithic (Chatelperronian and Aurignacian)
  - Site of the Grotte de Taillis-les-Coteaux (Antigny, France), Upper Paleolithic (Magdalenian)
  - Site of the Grotte du Noisetier (Fréchet-Aure, France), Middle Paleolithic (Mousterian)
  - Site of the Grotte d’Isturitz (Saint-Martin-d’Arberoue, France), Upper Paleolithic (Aurignacian)
  - Site of the Grotte de Rochefort and the Grotte de la Chèvre (Saulges, France), Upper Paleolithic (Solutrean)
  - Site of the Caune de l’Arago (Tautavel, France), Lower Paleolithic (Acheulean)
  - Site of Molène (Molène, France), Neolithic
  - Site of Menez-Drégan (Plouhinec, France), Lower Paleolithic (Acheulean)
  
  Experimental Archaeology Activities:
  - Experimental cremations (Wallonia, Belgium), with modern animal and human biological materials
  
  Primate Watching Experience:
  - Primatology Centre of Rousset (Rousset, France): Papio, Macaca, Saimiri

Activities Outside University

• 2021 - Present: Co-Editor-in-Chief, Anthropologica et Praehistorica
  2020 - Present: President, IsoArcH Association
  2019 - Present: Board Member, Royal Belgian Society of Anthropology and Prehistory
  2011 - Present: Founder & Director of the IsoArcH database
  2019-2021: Treasurer, Royal Belgian Society of Anthropology and Prehistory
  

Awards, Grants and Funding

• 2021: K. Salesse & C. Stantis, Shohet Scholars Program, International Catacomb Society, USA (20,000USD)
  2021: C. Snoeck & K. Salesse for IsoArcH, from the MAMA VUB-funded project, Belgium (100,000€)
  2021: N. Mattielli, K. Salesse, Council of the Faculty of Sciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium (1,500€)
  2021: K. Salesse for IsoArcH, UK Reproducibility Network (Bristol, UK) (575€)
  2021: C. Snoeck & K. Salesse for IsoArcH, from LUMIERE ERC-funded project, Belgium (25,000€)
  2020: K. Salesse, Travel Grant, Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique – FNRS, Belgium (1166€)
  2020: C. Snoeck & K. Salesse for IsoArcH, from CRUMBEL EOS-funded project Belgium (6,000€)
  2019: K. Salesse, Travel Grant, Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique – FNRS, Belgium (660€)
  2017: K. Salesse, Commission des Publications et des Subsides, Fondation Universitaire, Belgium) (500€)
  2016: K. Salesse & R. Tykot, Shohet Scholars Program, International Catacomb Society, USA (10,500USD)
  2016: D. Castex & K. Salesse, from Aquitaine Region funded-project, France (5,000€)
  2014: K. Salesse, J. Bruzek & P. Veleminsky, European SYNTHESYS program and National Museum of Prague, Czech Republic (3,000€)
  2012: K. Salesse, Archéosphère LLC, France (2,500€)
  2010: K. Salesse, Merit-based scholarship for doctoral study, Ministry of Higher Education and Research, France

Major Publications

• CAPUZZO, Giacomo, Guy DE MULDER ,, Charlotte SABAUX, Sarah DALLE, Mathieu BOUDIN, Rica ANNAERT, Marta HLAD, Kévin Alexis André SALESSE, Amanda SENGELØV, Elisavet STAMATAKI, Barbara VESELKA, Eugène WARMENBOL, Christophe SNOECK and Martine VERCAUTEREN. FINAL NEOLITHIC AND BRONZE AGE FUNERARY PRACTICES AND POPULATION DYNAMICS IN BELGIUM, THE IMPACT OF RADIOCARBON DATING CREMATED BONES. Radiocarbon. Cambridge University Press, 2023, vol. 65, No 1, p. 51-80. ISSN 0033-8222. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/RDC.2022.94. URL info
• DALLE, Sarah, Giacomo CAPUZZO, Marta HLAD, Barbara VESELKA, Annaert RICA, Mathieu BOUDIN, Charlotte SABAUX, Kévin Alexis André SALESSE, Amanda SENGELØV, Elisavet STAMATAKI, Martine VERCAUTEREN, Eugène WARMENBOL, Christophe SNOECK and Guy DE MULDER. Hidden transitions. New insights into changing social dynamics between the Bronze and Iron Age in the cemetery of Destelbergen (Belgium). Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. Elsevier, 2023, vol. 49, June 2023, p. 1-15. ISSN 2352-409X. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.103979. URL info
• RICHARDS, Nina, Stefan EICHERT, Sabine LADSTÄTTER, Christina CHEUNG, Michael P. RICHARDS and Kévin Alexis André SALESSE. When big data initiatives meet: Data sharing between THANADOS and IsoArcH for early medieval cemeteries in Austria. Data in Brief. Elsevier, 2023, vol. 48, June 2023, p. 109250-109262. ISSN 2352-3409. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2023.109250. URL info
• SALESSE, Kévin Alexis André, Sylva DRTIKOLOVÁ KAUPOVÁ, Arwa KHAROBI, Antony COLOMBO, Jaroslav BRŮŽEK, Vítězslav KUŽELKA and Petr VELEMÍNSKÝ. Leveraging IsoArcH for isotope paleopathology: The example of the dataset from the Jedlicka collection (Central Europe, 19th century CE). Data in Brief. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2023, vol. 51, December, p. 1-10. ISSN 2352-3409. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2023.109523. URL info
• MEYLEMANS, Erwin, Rica ANNAERT, Giacomo CAPUZZO, Koen DEFORCE, Leentje LINDERS, Jef VAN DONINCK, Barbara VESELKA, Charlotte SABAUX, Sarah DALLE, Mathieu BOUDIN, Marta HLAD, Kévin Alexis André SALESSE, Amanda SENGELOV, Elisavet STAMATAKI, Eugène WARMENBOL, Martine VERCAUTEREN, Guy DE MULDER and Christophe SNOECK. Uit de kluiten gewassen: een toevalsvondst van ijzertijdurnen in een grafheuvelcomplex te Postel (Mol, prov. Antwerpen, België) (Oversized: a chance discovery of Iron Age urns in a burial mound complex in Postel (Mol, prov. Antwerp, Belgium)). Lunula : Archaeologia protohistorica. Brusel: Contactgroep Keltische en Komparatieve Studies. Cel Archeologie van de Metaaltijden (CAM), 2022, vol. 30, 26.02.2022, p. 67-71. ISSN 1373-8623. URL info
• SNOECK, Christophe, Christina CHEUNG, Jacob I. GRIFFITH, Hannah F. JAMES and Kévin Alexis André SALESSE. Strontium isotope analyses of archaeological cremated remains – new data and perspectives. Data in Brief. Netherlands: Elsevier BV, 2022, vol. 42, June 2022, p. "108115", 8 pp. ISSN 2352-3409. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2022.108115. URL info
• BORGES, Caroline, Ingrid CHANCA and Kévin Alexis André SALESSE. Stable isotope data and radiocarbon dates from Brazilian bioarchaeological samples: An extensive compilation. Data in Brief. Netherlands: Elsevier, 2022, vol. 42, June 2022, p. "108117", 12 pp. ISSN 2352-3409. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2022.108117. URL info
• DALLE, Sarah, Christophe SNOECK, Amanda SENGELØV, Kévin Alexis André SALESSE, Marta HLAD, Rica ANNAERT, Tom BOONANTS, Mathieu BOUDIN, Giacomo CAPUZZO, Carina T. GERRITZEN, Steven GODERIS, Charlotte SABAUX, Elisavet STAMATAKI, Martine VERCAUTEREN, Barbara VESELKA, Eugène WARMENBOL and Guy DE MULDER. Strontium isotopes and concentrations in cremated bones suggest an increased salt consumption in Gallo-Roman diet. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS. ENGLAND: NATURE PORTFOLIO, 2022, vol. 12, No 1, p. 1-12. ISSN 2045-2322. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-12880-4. URL info
• BOUCHERIE, Alexandra, Caroline POLET, Kévin Alexis André SALESSE, Philippe LEFEVRE and Martine VERCAUTEREN. The burning maze: The potential value of the human bony labyrinth in estimating sex of calcined remains. Journal of Forensic Sciences. Hoboken: Wiley, 2022, vol. 67, No 5, p. 1948-1961. ISSN 0022-1198. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1556-4029.15103. URL info
• HAUZEUR, Anne and Kévin Alexis André SALESSE. EDITO – Comme un vent nouveau. Anthropologica et Praehistorica. Brusel: Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, 2022, vol. 131, No 7, p. 1. ISSN 1377-5723. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.57937/ap.2022.001. URL info

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