Cameron Petrie conducts research on the archaeology of Iran, Pakistan and India, and has been with the Department of Archaeology in Cambridge since 2005, when he became the Research Councils UK Fellow in South Asian and Iranian Archaeology. He was appointed as a Lecturer in 2010, Senior Lecturer in 2014 and Reader in 2016. Prior to starting in Cambridge, he was the Katherine and Leonard Woolley Junior Research Fellow at Somerville College Oxford (2003-2006) and was appointed to that position after finishing his PhD at the University of Sydney (1998-2002).