Sora Duly

Work Experience

• 2025 - 2026: Forensic Science Section intern at the International Criminal Court (ICC/CPI) - Office of the Prosecutor (OTP), The Hague, Netherlands (July 2025 - January 2026).
• 2023: Archivist for the French Ministry of Armed Forces, Metz, France (June - October 2023).
• 2023: Forensic Anthropologist for the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP), United Nations, Nicosia, Cyprus (May 2023).
• 2022 - 2023: Fieldwork in Miyagi Prefecture and Iwate Prefecture, Japan (October - December 2022 + January 2023 - March 2023) and Aceh region, Indonesia (December 2022 - January 2023).
• 2021: Research Associate (internship). ANR (French National Research Agency) – Transfunéraire. Fieldwork in July 2021 in Bosnia-Herzegovina to assess the socio-cultural issues in forensic and legal management of the dead of the Yugoslavian wars, Marseille, France (February 2021 - August 2021).
• 2019: Nursing Assistant. EHPAD (Nursing home for the disabled), Montpellier, France (June - October 2019)
• 2017 – 2019: School Monitor in structures of "Réseau d'Éducation Prioritaire" (REP), Sète and Montpellier, France (September 2017 - August 2019).
• 2016 - 2018: Seminar Tutor in Sociology and Social Anthropology. Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, Montpellier, France (September 2016 - August 2018).
• 2016 – 2017: Manager of Cultural Affairs in a Penitentiary Section of Probation (SPIP). Penitentiary Centre of Béziers - French Ministry of Justice, Béziers, France (October 2016 - September 2017).

Academic Degrees and Education

• Jan 2022 (current) – PhD Student – Anthropology. "Adapting international forensic protocols to local needs : the issues of management of the dead and identification in 2011 post-tsunami Japan, and 2004 post-tsunami Indonesia", under the co-supervision of Dr Elisabeth Anstett (CNRS, Marseille) and Prof Sebastien Boret (IRIDeS, Tohoku University). Funding of the International Committee of the Red Cross's (ICRC) Forensic Unit (2022) and JSPS Doctoral Fellowship (2022-2023).
• 2021 – Master of Science – Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology. Master's thesis: "Exhumations and identifications assessment in post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina: the case of Physicians for Human Rights' reports", under the co-supervision of Prof Pascal Adalian and Dr Elisabeth Anstett
• 2016 – Master of Arts – Sociology/Social Anthropology of Law and Violence. Master's Thesis: "Violent death: legal medicine, its history, development and the adjustments of the social and legal realities to scientific facts", under the supervision of prof Denis Fleurgdorge.
• 2014 – Bachelor of Arts – Sociology/Social Anthropology of Religious beliefs. Bachelor's Dissertation: "The Ringmaster: the narrative structure of circus arts and the transformation of reality into belief", under the supervision of prof Jean-Bruno Renard.

Fellowships and Grants Awards

• 2022: JSPS Doctoral Fellowship for Research in Japan (short-term) by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. Host institution : International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS), Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan. October 2022 – March 2023.
• 2021: Funding for doctoral research by the International Commitee of the Red Cross's (ICRC) Forensic Unit. October 2021 – September 2022.
• 2011: Excellence-Major Scholarship (Bourse d'Excellence-Major) by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Agency for French Education Abroad (AEFE). September 2011 – August 2016.

Licenses & certifications

• 2017: Certificat de competences de citoyen de sécurité civile PSC-1. Sapeurs Pompiers de Béziers, Béziers, France.
• 2014: Certificat informatique et internet de l'enseignement supérieur C2i niveau 2. Université Paul Valéry - Montpellier, III, Montpellier, France.