After obtaining a PhD in archaeology at Paris IV Sorbonne on the Buddhist āśrama of Prasat Ong Mong, Chea Socheat became co-director of the excavation campaigns of the Yaśodharāśrama research programme. He supervises the post-excavation work, manages all cartographic and topographic data and participates in the publications and reports.
He also carries out mapping work as part of the Corpus des inscriptions khmères (CIK) programme and collects topographic data from all over Southeast Asia.
Socheat is in charge of preventive archaeological excavations at Angkor in the area that APSARA is responsible for.
Sk आश्रम āśrama, "spiritual hermitage" or "monastery" | kh អាស្រម ashram "monastery"
ashram: a kind of monastery or retreat to which men retire when they consider that their active life is over, in order to prepare for their future existence. In ancient Angkor, the asrama, or vidyasrama, or varnnasrama, were educational colleges with teachers were called adhyapaka, and heads of association often called kulapati (cf. varnnasrama).
