Dr. De Meyer brings dual expertise to the project as an Egyptologist/archaeologist and as historian of Egyptology. In addition to her position as Assistant Director for Archaeology and Egyptology at the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo, she is co-director of the Dayr al-Barsha Project, an interdisciplinary archaeological research project in Middle Egypt. Dayr al-Barsha was one of the original HU-MFA Expedition sites (1915), and the Arabic diary of that season is one of the first ones kept by the HU–MFA Expedition. As postdoctoral researcher for the EOS-Project “Pyramids and Progress: Belgian expansionism and the making of Egyptology, 1830–1952” at KU Leuven and as co-director of the SURA Project cataloguing the historic Egyptian glass plate collection of the Royal Museums of Art and History in Brussels she is moreover well-versed in archival research concerning the history of the discipline of Egyptology.