Marie-Louise Nosch is Professor at the SAXO Institute, University of Copenhagen and was the Director of the Danish National Research Foundation’s Centre for Textile Research from 2005 to 2017. She studied history in France and Italy and received her PhD from Universität Salzburg, Austria. She is recognised as a leading authority on the history and analysis of ancient textiles with specialist interest in Aegean epigraphy, Mycenaean textile production and clothing in ancient Greece. She is the editor of many titles in the Ancient Textiles series.