David Bazin

Biography

A contract research engineer, David Bazin heads the geospatial laboratory of the CHAMPA project at the École française d’Extrême-Orient (EFEO) temporary centre in Champasak, Laos. Since the CHAMPA project began in January 2020, he has run the EFEO geospatial laboratory in Champasak, under the supervision of Damian Evans and, since 2023, Christophe Pottier. He leads a team of three Lao engineers analysing LiDAR data in Champasak and Savannakhet provinces, in collaboration with the EFEO’s Archaeoscape.ai laboratory in Paris, and supervises the topographic, ground-penetrating radar and photogrammetric surveys that support archaeological excavations and architectural surveys. He handles the logistics of all EFEO missions in Champasak and Savannakhet within the CHAMPA project (archaeological excavations, studies and assessments of the Savannakhet museum and treasury, Vat Taleo Keo, Vat Meuang Kang and the Vat Phou museum), as well as the accounting and administrative management of the EFEO Champasak office, as its finance officer (régisseur).

Career

1. 2026

   France–Laos Festival — Q&A after the screening of “Laos: A Forgotten Treasure of the Khmer Civilization”

2. 2023

   Laboratory under the supervision of Christophe Pottier

3. 2020

   Launch of the CHAMPA project: heads the EFEO geospatial laboratory in Champasak

Research

Using LiDAR and mapping to reveal archaeological landscapes hidden beneath the forest.

Works & projects