Marie-Louise Nosch

Nosch studied history at the Université Nancy II and history and classical philology at the University of Copenhagen. After obtaining her PhD on the Mycenaean textile industry at the University of Salzburg in 2000, supervised by Sigrid Deger-Jalkotzy and Oswald Panagl, she worked for the Austrian Academy of Sciences' Mycenaean Commission and as a Carlsberg postdoctoral researcher at the University of Copenhagen. She became a research professor in 2009 and subsequently a full professor (2017–present) in the SAXO Institute for the study of prehistoric and classical archaeology, ethnology, Classics and history, where she is a member of the National Danish Research Foundation’s Centre for Textile Research; from 2005-2016 she was Director of this research centre. She has received numerous high-profile awards, including the Iris Foundation Award for Outstanding Mid-Career Scholars (2009), the Humboldt Foundation's Anneliese Maier Award (2013), and Queen Margrethe II's Science Prize (2019), and is a member of the Order des Palmes académiques. She is also a member of the Royal Danish Academy and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, is the Scandinavian representative on the Comité International Permanent d’Études Mycéniennes and a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and sits on the Board of Directors of the Velux Foundations.

Marie-Louise Bech Nosch (January 1970 -; née Gregersen) is a Professor in the University of Copenhagen and an expert in the interdisciplinary study of prehistoric textiles. Her main research focus is on the evidence for textile production in Mycenaean Greece provided by the Linear B tablets; she has also published widely on the cross-cultural study of textiles from across the ancient Mediterranean and Near East.