Eve Derenne is a postdoctoral researcher at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, specialising in the study of Western European societies during the Neolithic, the Chalcolithic and the Bronze Age. Her research employs methods such as ceramic technology analysis, radiocarbon dating and chronological modelling, and her most recent work investigates the emergence, diffusion and networks related to the Bell Beaker complex in the western Mediterranean (2800–2000 BCE).