Meet the Team
Claudia Näser
Archaeologist, Project Director
I am an archaeologist by training. I studied in Berlin in Germany and Cambridge in England. I have been coming to Sudan since 1992. At this time I was only a student ...
Amel Hassan Gismallah
Archaeologist, Project Director
I am Amel, co-director of the Mograt project. Originally, my family was from Shendi, but I was born in Kassala. We moved to Khartoum ...
Jens Weschenfelder
Archaeologist, Field Director
Since I was a teenager the stories of Indiana Jones or Lara Croft, two famous movie archaeologists, have fascinated me. After finishing school, ...
Mohamed Mohamed el-Tayeb Badri
Head of Logistics
My name is Mohamed Mohamed el-Tayeb Badri. I am from Sudan, Kordofan, al-Obeid town – this is my roots. ...
Gemma Tully
Community Archaeologist
I have always been interested in the past and what it means to other people. I studied archaeology at University in England and was lucky enough to travel ...
Peter Becker
Architect
My name is Peter Becker. I was born in western Germany in 1964. After studying at the universities in Kassel and Hannover, I moved to Berlin where I work as an architect ...
Osman Khaleel Elawad Karrar
Archaeologist
I was born in Atbara, River Nile State. I have always loved historical studies and movies. As a result, I entered the Department of Archaeology ...
Tina Jakob
Bioarchaeologist
I'm originally from Stuttgart, Germany, but I have been living in England for the last 20 years. I work for the Department of Archaeology at Durham University ...
Kay Kossatz
Archaeologist
I have always been interested in archaeology, mostly through my parents and visits to Mediterranean countries. Therefore, I started studying Classical Archaeology ...
Fathia Ahmed Mohamed
Logistics
I am Fathia, the good soul of the compound. I was born and raised north of al-Obeid in Kordofan. ...
Nadir Taj Elsir Abbas
Future archaeologist
I am Nadir, 25 years old. I was born in Karmel, and I live there together with my mother, my sister, my brother and his wife in a compound. Since 2014, I have been working with the Mograt archaeological team ...
Amanda Ford Spora
Community Archaeologist
I remember as a child, in Australia, my mother first introduced me to stories of a far-away land, with amazing buildings, called Pyramids …
Annett Dittrich
Archaeologist
I am an archaeologist based in Berlin, Germany, where I had the great opportunity to study the archaeology of Sudan. When I came to Sudan for the first time in the year 2000 ...
Kerstin Gessner
Archaeologist
Fascinated by the phenomenon of changes through times, I became an archaeologist. What looks today like an empty desert might have been a blossoming garden in the past. ...
Gareth Rees
Archaeologist
Ever since I began studying archaeology, when I was eighteen, I have been interested by the way in which people live in different environments. ...
Lilli Janotte
Bioarchaeologist
I decided to study archaeology when I was in school. After my A-levels I lived and worked in Rwanda for one year and after returning home to Germany I began to study Egyptology ...