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Dr. des.
Pierre-Louis Blanchard

Curriculum Vitæ

Services

• Translations between the languages English, German and French.
• Ebooks: Creating beautiful epub, pdf, azw3 (Amazon format) or plain text files from manuscripts.
• Archival Research: If you don’t have time or the skills necessary to browse an archive in Switzerland or online catalogues, I can do that for you.
• Literature Research: I’ll help you find and compile relevant literature.

Core Skills & Characteristics

• Multi-faceted generalist.
• Respectful team member with the ability to work in a systematic manner independently.
• Excellent administrative and written skills. Articulate, information literate.
• Solid IT-Skills in a number of programs, confident with technology.

Languages

German and French: bilingual.
English: fluent with professional working proficiency.
Swiss German: Understanding.
Latin, Spanish, Italian, Turkish: Basic knowledge.

Skills

Teaching

• Completion of a course on teaching in Higher Education (‘Ouverture’ at the Centre for Teaching (‘Zentrum für Lehre’), University of Lucerne) with practical experience at university level.

Presentations

• Numerous presentations at international conventions.

Bibliographic research

Cataloguing

• Experience in cataloguing according to RDA rules.

Indexing of archives

Translations and copy editing

• German–French–English. Copy editing of the French translations of the publications ‘Boti’ (2018) and ‘Les Dan’ (2018); cf. publication list on webpage.

Organisation and coordination

• Assistant for the exhibition ‘Dada Afrika’. Work as a student representative in various positions of student associations during my studies at the University of Mainz (Germany).

Broad general knowledge

• Especially in history, geography, natural sciences, etc.

Computer Skills

I have beginner to advanced level of knowledge with following applications/operating systems (and many others):

• LaTeX, LibreOffice, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint), Outlook.
  
• Linux, Windows, macOS.
  
• MuseumPlus, Aleph, Filemaker.
  
• UNIX shell scripting.
  
• I also wrote a little program in Python once.

Education and Qualifications

2011–2019: University of Lucerne

• Phd-student in Cultural Studies (Kulturwissenschaften).
• Viva held in May 2019.

2006 - 2007: University of Geneva

• Erasmus Semester, Institute for Anthropology; research on a collection of skulls.

2002 - 2010: Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany

• Magister Artium. Major: (Physical) Anthropology; Minors: Middle Europæan Archæology (Vor- und Frühgeschichte ) and Palæontology.

Work Experience

2019-07–today: Freelance Researcher (part-time)

• Archival and literature research.

2020-07–today: Freelance Writer (part-time)

• Youtube channel Today I Found Out.

2019-03–2020-03: Freelance Instructor (part-time)

• Teacher for Tibetan yoga (Lu Jong) and meditation coach.

2018-07–2018-10: Archival Assistant

• Museum Rietberg, Zurich.
• Temporary position.

2016-11–2018-06: Scientific Assistant

• Museum Rietberg, Zurich.
• Scientific Assistant for the former Director of the Museum and Curator for Indian paintings, Dr. Eberhard Fischer.
• Temporary position.

2015-07–2016-10: Intern Archive and Library

• Museum Rietberg, Zurich.
• Temporary position.

2011-11–2015-04: Research Assistant

• University of Luzern.
• SNF project ‘Collecting Humanity: How Human Remains Are Made into Museum Objects’ (SNF number 137690; directed by Prof. Dr. Marianne Sommer).
• Temporary position.

Teaching Experience

Autumn 2013 - Autumn 2014: Lucerne University

• Teacher Training in Higher Education (Course title: ‘Ouverture’ at ‘Zentrum für Lehre’).

Spring 2013: Lucerne University

• Seminar ‘Human Remains as Scientific Objects’ (‘Menschliche Überreste als wissenschaftliche Objekte’)

Winter 2005 - 2006: Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany

• Supervision of undergraduate students in a genetics consolidation exercise (Institute of Anthropology)

Hobbies

• Creating ebooks.
• Typography (for reading).
• Reading ancient mythology.
• History, philosophy and spirituality.
• Programming (shell and currently learning Lua).
• Coding (htlm and css; this site was hand-crafted by myself).

Last Edit: 2021-12-15