The Netherlands Institute for the Near East

Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten  -  Institut néerlandais du Proche-Orient

15 Aug 2024 Funding

New: NVIC/NINO PhD scholarship

Introducing NINO’s co-funding of the NVIC PhD position, and introducing the first NVIC/NINO PhD student!

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We are very happy to announce that as of this year, NVIC and NINO offer a joint PhD scholarship. The PhD student will conduct their research at the NVIC in Cairo, with several research stays at NINO in Leiden. The PhD candidate will also enroll in the LIAS Graduate School.

It is with great pleasure that we introduce the first NVIC/NINO PhD student: Andrés Martín García de la Cruz.

Andrés completed his MA in Archaeology and Heritage at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in 2021, and his rMA in Egyptology at Leiden University in 2024. His PhD research project is titled “In the Centre of Egyptology: Cairo and the Role and History of the Foreign Archaeological Institutes in Egypt” and is supervised by prof. Olaf Kaper and dr. Marleen De Meyer.