• Main speciality research areas: Processes of magnetic remanence acquisition, magnetic refraction and anisotropy, cooling rate effects, geomagnetic secular variation, chronological data processing, heritage management.
• Other factors: A very well equipped laboratory with extensive experience in research training.
• Rennes will host Network Meeting and Workshop 4.

• Bi-lateral agreement with Sofia, Bulgaria. Links with University of Aarhus, Denmark. Co-operation with archaeomagnetic laboratories at Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (St. Maur) and Montpellier; Links with Ministère de la Culture; Institut National de Recherches Archéologiques Préventives; Research interests in France, Spain, Italy, Israel, etc.

Lanos, Ph., Le Goff, M., Kovacheva, M., Schnepp, E., Hierarchical modelling of archaeomagnetic data and curve estimation by moving average technique. Geophysical Journal International, 160, 440-476, 2005.

Chauvin A., Garcia Y., Lanos Ph. and F. Laubenheimer,  Paleointensity of the geomagnetic field recovered on archaeomagnetic sites from France, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 120, 111-136, 2000.

Lanos, Ph., Kovacheva, M. and A. Chauvin, Archaeomagnetism, methodology and applications: implementation and practice of the archaeomagnetic method in France and Bulgaria,  European Journal of Archaeology, 2, 365-392, 1999.