Maxime Durocher

Coordinator of the digital strategy. Scientific Advisor for SU.

Maxime Durocher is Lecturer in Islamic Art and Archaeology at Sorbonne University, from which he obtained his PhD in 2018 with a dissertation about the architecture and settlement patterns of Sufi communities in Medieval Anatolia. He has worked as a post-doc fellow at the University of Bonn (2018) and at the Department of Islamic Art of the Musée du Louvre (2019) and has participated to the Crossing Frontiers : Christians and Muslims and their art in Eastern Anatolia and the Caucasus, Getty Connecting Art Histories Project. His current research focuses on the archaeology of settlement, particularly around the site of Komana (Turkey) where he conducts excavations, and the epigraphic material of Medieval and Ottoman Anatolia. Maxime has also an interest in the use and valorization of scientific archives related to Islamic Heritage. He has organized an international conference on this topic at the Louvre and Sorbonne in 2019 (the proceedings are in preparation for publication in 2024) and co-direct the Mashreq-Maghreb Project.

He is scientific advisor of CallFront for Sorbonne University and in charge of the digital strategy of the project.