Simon Mitchell, Postdoc-fellow

On May 1st, Simon Mitchell joined the Provenance team as a postdoctoral research fellow on a three-year contract. Simon completed his PhD in Architecture at the University of Manchester in 2024 and holds a special interest in the storage and archival lives of building materials and components. Over summer, he will visit the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York to meet curators, archivists, and storage managers. There he plans to learn about the clear-up operations and the archival processing of a range architectural vestiges related to the World Trade Center in the aftermath of the disaster.