Dr. Gravel-Miguel is currently looking for work. For the past 2.5 years, she worked as a Research Scientist at the New Mexico Consortium, training Machine Learning models to find archaeological sites in lidar-derived imagery. Before that, she worked as a Postdoctoral Research Scholar for the Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University. She does research in Archaeology and focuses on the Upper Paleolithic of Southwest Europe.

I work at the intersection of archaeology and artificial intelligence, applying computational modelling to some of prehistory’s hardest questions. My doctoral research used agent-based modelling combined with genetic algorithms to explore the behavioural and biological characteristics of Neanderthals — treating ancient populations not as static artefacts but as dynamic systems that can be interrogated through simulation.
My work reflects a broader conviction: that AI and machine learning are not just tools imported from other disciplines, but frameworks that can reshape how archaeologists ask questions and interpret the past.