Self-taught archeologist, Guillaume Epinal (Le Mans, 1984) has developed his passion for "preventive archaeology" and ancient material cultures by volunteering on several archeological sites in France, Italy, Syria, and Southeast Asia. In Cambodia, his contribution to ceramology and pre-Angkorian… Read more

An independent researcher, Asger Mollerup (12 Aug 1949, Hobro, Denmark) specializes in ethno-linguistics, Khmer temples history and archaeo-astronomy, the discipline studying the way ancient cultures related to celestial events. He has extensively studied hundreds of Khmer temples in Northern… Read more

One of the leading instigators of the Greater Angkor Project, Professor of Theoretical and World Archeology at The University of Sydney (Australia), Roland Fletcher has inspired several multi-disciplinary research campaigns on the Angkor civilization, including the Lidar (airborne laser imaging)… Read more

Helen Churchill Candee (nee Helen Churchill Hungerford 5 Oct 1858, New York City – 23 Aug 1949, York Harbor, Maine) was an American author, journalist, interior designer, active feminist and geographer whose book about Angkor, Angkor The Magnificent (1924), is regarded as the first major… Read more

Dominic Goodall is a Sanskritist (with a solid Greek and Latin linguistics background) and historian in religion. After completing his BA (Sanskrit with Pali, 1990) at Oxford University, he came to Hamburg for two years to learn medieval Tamil with Professor S.A. Srinivasan.Back to Oxford under the… Read more

Charles Frank Wandesforde Higham (UK, 1939), a research professor at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, and a member of the British Academy, is a prolific archaeologist most noted for his work in Southeast Asia, including the neolithic sites of Northeast Thailand and the Angkorian… Read more

Christophe Pottier (1966, Mayenne, France) is an archeologist and architect who worked with EFEO mission to Angkor from 1992 till 1999. Previously, he was involved in the restoration of the Khmer temple of Phanom Wan in Thailand, and the indexation of the Angkor related documentation preserved in… Read more

A Canadian-Australian researcher, Damian Evans (d. 12 Sept 2023, Paris, France) focused on archaeological landscapes in mainland Southeast Asia, in particular those of the Khmer Empire. He specialized in using advanced remote sensing technologies such as airborne laser scanning (or “LIDAR”) to… Read more

Mathematician and civil engineer Terry Lustig is an independent scholar, affiliated to the Greater Angkor Project and the University of Sydney (Department of Archeology). Read more

Affiliate to the Department of Archeology at University of Sydney, Australia, Eileen Lustig has extensively studied the Angkorian economy and commerce through epigraphic research. Read more

Author and artist Sappho Marchal-Brébion (1904, Paris - 2000), the daughter of French archeologist and Angkor Wat Conservator Henri Marchal, was the first researcher to study, document in drawings and count the numerous female stone figures in Angkor Wat.Sappho (sometimes spelled Sapho) Marchal… Read more

Ethnomusicologist and music archaeologist Patrick Kersalé (1959, Nantes, France) has spent the past 30 years traveling around the world (primarily in West Africa, Southeast Asia, India, Nepal and Europe) in order to seek traditional music at risk of disappearing in order to preserve the memory and… Read more

Sakphearoth (1997, Siem Reap) has been extensively traveling across South East Asia and Cambodia since her childhood. After working in advertisement photography, she's developing her own photographic style and skills. Read more

French philologist, translator and historian Antoine Cabaton (11 Dec.1863, Nérondes, France -1942, Nice, France) was a philologist, translator (from Spanish and Dutch) and historian, one of the founders of the Insulindian studies in the Western world who contributed to the development of the… Read more

Fray Gabriel de San Antonio (1565?-1608) was a Dominican priest who wrote about the expansion of Spanish colonial endeavors in South East Asia, and counted among the first European visitors to Angkor. Hailing from the nobiliary, he studied theology in Ocaña and Salamanca Dominican convents before… Read more

Born in 1957 in Phnom Penh, photographer Dunnara Meas was 18 when the Khmer Rouge coup d'Etat forced him into exile, in France.Renowned still photographer for feature films and theater performances, he came back to Cambodia in order to cover the shooting of Rithy Panh's Les gens de la rizière (Rice… Read more

George Groslier [kh ហ្សក ហ្រ្គូសលីយេ, jp ヂョルヂュ・グロスリエ] (4 Feb. 1887, Phnom Penh - 16 June 1945, Phnom Penh), the first child with French citizenship born in modern Cambodia, was an artist, novelist, historian, archaeologist, ethnologist, architect, photographer, and the founder and curator of the… Read more

David Brotherson has been conducting research in Cambodia since 2009, settling in Siem Reap in 2011. A member of the Greater Angkor Project (Archaeology research program and international collaboration between the University of Sydney, Cambodia, and France), he has conducted fieldwork and… Read more

Auguste Pavie (31 May 1847, Dinan, France - 7 June 1925, Thourie, France) was a French explorer, administrator and diplomat who extensively explored the lands of Cambodia, Lao and Siam in the 1880s and 1890s.His interest in local cultures and traditions brought him to collect folktales, manuscripts… Read more

Patmawan Buranamat (Bangkok, 1979) studied English and English Literature, graduating in South East Asian studies at Chulalongkorn University. In 2005, she attended the conference on "Contemporary Research in Pre-Angkorian Cambodia" held at the Center for Khmer Studies (CKS) in Siem Reap. She is… Read more