Dr Carmen Ting, FSA, is an archaeologist specialising in materials analysis and ancient technologies. She is directing several projects that revolve around the topic of the emergence of glazed tableware production and consumption during the medieval period from a global perspective. These projects include exploring the role of the Levantine coast in the spread of glaze technologies in Islamic lands and investigating the beginning of glazed tableware production in Central Asia. She is also leading a project that focuses on developing novel non-invasive analytical protocols to examine medieval Persian glazed ceramics, with the aim of expanding the context and narratives of museum objects.
After completing her doctorate at the UCL Institute of Archaeology (2014), Dr Ting took up research positions in The Netherlands, Qatar and Cyprus before returning to the UK, where she was the Renfrew Fellow at the McDonald Institute of Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge. She also held the position as the Senior Teaching Associate, coordinating the MPhil in Archaeological Science, at the same institution until her appointment as the Lecturer in Archaeological Science at the School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester.
Dr Ting is the Co-editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Open Archaeology Data. She was previously an Executive Board member and the Editor-in-Chief of the bulletin of the International Society for Archaeological Sciences.