Mette Bangsborg Thuesen

Mette Bangsborg Thuesen is a project curator in the Middle East Department at the British Museum. She earned her PhD from Freie Universität Berlin, focusing on pottery as a source for reconstructing commensality and daily life in Sasanian Iran. She has held research posts at Ca' Foscari University and the University of Copenhagen, and contributed to various archival and digitisation projects. She has worked as an excavator, ceramicist, and small finds specialist on several archaeological field projects, primarily in Jordan, Iran, Iraq, and Iraqi Kurdistan.