Dr Courtney Nimura

As the Curator for Later European Prehistory, Courtney cares for and researches the European Late Bronze Age and pre-Roman Iron Age collection in Antiquities and the Iron Age coin collection from Britain and Gaul in the Heberden Coin Room.

She currently leads and collaborates on a variety of research projects, many of which involve digital approaches and new technologies, from Linked Open Data and numismatics to virtual displays and 3D imaging and printing techniques. Courtney completed her PhD at the University of Reading in prehistoric archaeology and Masters degrees in fine art and archaeology.

She has worked in university departments and museums in the USA, UK, and Australia, most recently at the University of Oxford for over 6 years, where she is now based in the Ashmolean Museum.