Dr. Wouter F.M. Henkelman

Trained as a classical philologist and ancient historian at the universities of Leiden and Utrecht, Wouter Henkelman graduated from the former in 2006 with a dissertation entitled The other gods who are, which explores cases of Elamite-Iranian acculturation. He is currently associate professor of Elamite and Achaemenid studies at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (4e section; since 2012); he is also director of the Sarikhani Centre for Elamite Studies at the same institution (since 2024).

Outside Paris, he is co-director (alongside Mark Garrison) of the Persepolis Fortification Archive Project. Among his various research interests are Achaemenid administration, Elamite philology, Elamite and Achaemenid epigraphy, and Greek historiography on the Persian Empire.