Dr. Zoila Luz Epossi Ntah-Kroll

• Seit 2024
  Winkelmann-Fellow at the German Mining-Museum Bochum
• September - November 2023
  Guest Researcher at the Institute of Archaeology, University of Hamburg (Germany) with DAAD Scholarships _Research stays for scientists 2023
• März - Mai 2019
  Guest Researcher at the Department of Geology and Petrology, University of Granada (Spain) with the GIZ/CIM Funding (German International Cooperation)
• Seit November 2018
  Senior Lecturer in Archaeometry at the Department of Arts and Archaeology, Faculty of Arts, Letters and Social Sciences, University of Yaounde 1 (Cameroon)
• Juli - September 2018
  Guest Researcher at the Institute for Mineralogy and Petrography, University of Hamburg (Germany) with the DAAD Scholarships_ Research stays for scientists 2018

• Seit 2016
  Head of Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Section, Department of Arts and Archaeology, University of Yaounde 1 (Cameroon)

• 2015 - 2018
  Assistant Lecturer in Archaeometry at the Department of Arts and Archaeology, Faculty of Arts, Letters and Social Sciences, University of Yaounde 1 (Cameroon)

• 2008 - 2012
  Doctorate Degree in Archaeometry at the University of Leipzig, Institute for Mineralogy Crystallography and Material Sciences with Schlumberger Foundation Fellowship Awards

• 2004 - 2006
  Master II of Sciences with thesis in Inorganic Chemistry (DEA) at the University of Yaounde I (Cameroon), Faculty of Sciences

Zoila Epossi is chemist and holder of a PhD Degree in Archaeometry. She specialized on the technology and provenance study of archaeological artefacts, mainly ceramics but also slags and lithics, by using X-ray fluorescence, X-ray diffraction, FT-Infrared spectroscopy, thermal analyses DTA/TG, polarized optical microscopy, 3D Laser Scanner, 3D profilometer.

• Archaeometallurgical study of slags from Ndom - Cameroon (west central Africa).
• Bantu Homeland: Obobogo and Shum Laka sites from Cameroon – Archaeometric analysis of ceramic and lithic fragments as a source of information for technology transfer and transformations.
• Petrographic, mineralogical and chemical investigations of archaeological ceramics from three sites in the Lekie division, Central Cameroon: Provenance study.

Membership:

•  The Society for Archaeological Sciences (SAS)
• Society of Africanist Archaeologists (SAFA)
• TransArea Network Africa (TANA) of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut
• Faculty for the Future Community (Schlumberger Foundation)
• Association for Women in Science (AWIS)
• DAAD Alumni Members Cameroon
• GIZ-RF Alumni Members Cameroon
• Gesellschaft für Naturwissenschaftliche Archäologie – ARCHAEOMETRIE (GNAA)
• Comitato Internazionale Fotogrammetria Architettonica

Committee

• President of the organizing committee of the Archaeometry Day Seminars at the University of Yaounde 1
• Member of the Organizing committee and the Scientific Committee of the Entangling Geosciences and Chemistry (EGC) seminar series at the University of Yaounde 1.

Auswahl

• Epossi Ntah Z. L. and Cultrone G. (2024) Chemical, mineralogical and physical study on Late Iron Age ceramics from Nditam (Cameroon, West central Africa), Heritage Science Journal, 12:6 , DOI: 10.1186/s40494-023-01120-1/
• Epossi Ntah- Kroll Z. L., Ossima A., Mache J. R. (2022) Mineralogical characterization of ethnographic ceramics from Bankim (Adamawa, Cameroon) in TESSITURAS V10/ Jan-Jun 22 /Uni Pelotas/ RS/ Braziil
• Epossi Ntah Z.L and Cultrone G. (2022) Analytical study of archaeological pipes from Nditam (Cameroon), conference proceeding 43rd International Symposium of Archaeometry, Lisbon, Portugal.
• Ngo Mboua C. and Epossi Ntah-Kroll Z. L. (2021): Etude archéométrique des céramiques protohistoriques de Botko (Babimbi, littoral Cameroun), conference proceedings « Entre Géosciences et Chimie » 5th Seminar, Yaoundé, University of Yaounde 1/ Cameroon
• Epossi Ntah Z.L, Cultrone G. and Mache J. R. (2019) Mineralogical, chemical and physical study of ceramics from Nditam (centre/cameroon-west central africa) conference proceedings, International Conference on Clay Science and Technology EUROCLAY 2019, Paris, France.
• Sobott R. and Epossi Ntah Z. L. (2019) Porosity and pore size distribution in ceramics : case of a pottery sherd fron an excavation at Mfomakap, Cameroon, in comprendre les productions culturelles africaines- Apport de l’archéologie et des disciplines scientifiques connexes (sciences sociales, physiques et de l’art) Martin Elouga(Eds) Editions Universitaires Européennes.
• Epossi Ntah Z. L., Sobott R., Fabbri B., Elouga M. (2018) Estimation of firing temperature of archaeological ceramics from Mombal / Eastern Cameroon, Annales FALSH Uni Yde 1, n°20.
• Epossi Ntah Z.L., Sobott R., Fabbri B., Bente K. (2017): Characterization of some archaeological ceramics and clay samples from Zamala/far northern Cameroon, Cerâmica 63 (367), 413-422.