Simon Connor was awarded his PhD in art history and archaeology by the Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, in 2014. He has worked on various archaeological sites in Egypt, including Luxor, Dahshur, Tanis, and Heliopolis. He was a curator at the Museo Egizio, Turin (2014-2017), an Andrew W. Mellon Research Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2017-2018), and an FNRS Research Fellow at the University of Liège (2018-2021). He is the author of various articles and books, including Le statue del Museo Egizio (2016) and Être et paraître (2020).