Current Research in Egyptology is organised in a democratic fashion. Any university wishing to host the conference can submit a proposal and a presentation during the Annual General Meeting (AGM) in any particular year. At the end of the presentations, the vote of the assembly decides the winner. A committee representing the successful university arranges the following conference, while a permanent committee provides assistance and works on the long-term issues related to the conference. In order to allow a wider involvement of students in the CRE organisation, each member can remain in the permanent committee for a total of two years. A list of previous Permanent Committee members can be consulted here.
CRE Permanent Committee
Dr. Mohamed Youssef Sedek, Misr University for Science and Technology, Egypt – Chair
Mohamed Youssef Sedek is a lecturer at the Faculty of Archaeology and Tourism Guidance at Misr University for Science and Technology (MUST), and a restorer at the French Institute for Oriental Archaeology (IFAO). He specializes in metals, mural paintings, wood, and stones. Youssef has extensive field experience, having worked in missions since 2019, including the French mission at Deir el-Medina in Luxor (specifically working in tombs TT216, TT340 and TT265), the French mission at Tanis, and the Portuguese mission in the tomb of Akhmerutnisut (G 2184) on the Giza Plateau. He is also a member of the Faculty of Archaeology and Tourist Guidance mission at Saqqara. He also has experience in museum work, having restored several artifacts at the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square in 2021, and received training in recording and documenting archaeological artifacts at the Grand Egyptian Museum in 2018. He obtained a master’s degree in the restoration of metal artifacts composited with leather in 2022, followed by a PhD in restoration of metal artifacts with honors in 2025.
Andrés Martín García de la Cruz, Leiden University and the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo, Egypt
Andrés Martín García de la Cruz is a doctoral candidate in Egyptology at Leiden University, based in Cairo at the Netherlands-Flemish Institute, supported by the NVIC/NINO PhD Scholarship. He holds a BA in History and an MA in Archaeology and Heritage from the Autonomous University of Madrid, as well as a ResMA in Egyptology from Leiden University. He has lectured on Egyptology and the History of Egyptology at NVIC and at the Máster de Formación Permanente en Egiptología at the University of Alcalá. Andrés has archaeological fieldwork experience at over a dozen sites across the Mediterranean, including the necropoleis of Egyptian high officials and nomarchs at Deir el-Bahari and Dayr al-Bersha. He has extensive experience in organising and coordinating scientific and outreach academic events in Archaeology and Egyptology. In the Egyptological field, apart from CRE, Andrés co-founded and serves on the Permanent Committee of the Congreso Iberoamericano de Jóvenes Investigadores en Egiptología (CIJIE), and was one of the organisers of both the inaugural edition of CIJIE, hosted by the University of Alcalá in 2021, and the Thirteenth International Congress of Egyptologists (XIII ICE), held in Leiden in 2023.
Dr. John Rogers, Swansea University, Wales
John Rogers recently completed his PhD at Swansea University, where he is also Tutor in Egyptology in the Department of History, Heritage, and Classics. His dissertation examined the changing power structures during the Kushite-Saite transition in Egypt, and his research interests include the wider geopolitical connections between Egyptian, Neo-Assyrian/Babylonian, Levantine, and Anatolian polities in the mid-first millennium BCE. He has participated in fieldwork in Luxor and Abydos since 2017, focusing on reconstructing Late Period copies of the Pyramid Texts, and has worked as part of the Circulating Artefacts project (British Museum) and the Global Shabti Project (GSP). He co-organised the 2024 iteration of CRE, held in the UK, as well as the sixth EES Congress and sessions at the European Association of Archaeologists and the American Society of Overseas Research. He also works as a freelance proofreader and copyeditor, and drinks coffee.
Dr. Tokihisa Higo, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Maia Nolan
To contact the CRE Permanent Committee, please email the committee members at crepermanentcommittee@gmail.com.