Sébastien Plutniak is a researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), working at the CITERES-LAT laboratory (Tours, France), and a former fellow of the École française de Rome. Trained as a prehistoric archaeologist and a sociologist and historian of science, his research focuses on contemporary and past uses of formal and computer-based methods in the humanities and social sciences –and archaeology in particular–, studied from practical, socio-historical, and epistemological perspectives. As a field archaeologist he worked intensively in Borneo (2009-2016) and in New Guinea (2018-2024). Besides, he serves as a board member of the French Chapter of the “Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology” organisation, the “French Prehistoric Society”, and the “History of Archaeology” commission of the “International Union for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences”.