Curriculum Vitae Valentin Pantale Bernadou

Research interests

• Ptolemaic and Roman Egyptian temples
• Late Egyptian religion
• Ptolemaic hieroglyphic writing
• Library science

Scientific activities

• 04/2025 – 07/2025: Assistant librarian at the Egyptology Library “Bibliothèque Égypte Nilotique et Méditeranéenne (BENiM)” (UMR 5140, CNRS, Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3, France)
• 10/2024: Research trip at the Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale (Cairo, Egypt)

Education

• Since 10/2025: PhD student at the International Doctorate Programme (IDK) "Philology: Practices of Pre-modern Cultures, Global Perspectives and Future Concepts" (Elite Network of Bavaria; Ludwig-Maximilans-Universität München); Dissertation topic: “Les cryptes du temple d’Hathor de Dendara : étude théologique, architecturale et integrative” (supervisors: Martin Andreas Stadler, René Preys, Andreas Henning Pries)
• 09/2023 – 07/2024: University Degree (DU) – Library professions
• 09/2019 – 09/2021: Master's Degree – Archéologie des mondes anciens, parcours Égypte Nilotique et Méditerranéenne (Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3, France)

First master’s thesis: « Le plomb en Égypte ancienne : étude préliminaire » (supervisor: Stéphane Pasquali). Grade: 17/20
Second master’s thesis: “La crypte Ouest 3 du temple de Dendara : étude théologique, iconographique et aperçu intégratif” (supervisor: Stéphane Pasquali; dissertation jury: Stéphane Pasquali, Christophe Thiers). Grade: 17/20
• 09/2016 – 07/2019: Bachelor’s degree – Archeology & Art history (Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3, France)

Major in Egyptology and Archaeology
French national scholarship “Bourse au mérite”
• 2016: French Baccalaureate, science major (Narbonne, France)

Linguistic skills

• Mothertongue: French
• Other languages known: English (advanced), Spanish (intermediate), German (elementary)