Sergio Alarcón Robledo

Sergio Alarcón Robledo studied architecture (MArch) at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, before moving to the University of Cambridge in 2015 for his masters (MPhil) in Egyptology. He also completed an MA in archaeology at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology of UCLA in 2019, and received his PhD from Harvard University in 2025.

Sergio’s main area of research is ancient architecture, with a particular focus on the earliest developments of monumental architecture in Egypt. At Yale, Sergio is researching the necropolis of North Saqqara, through which he is investigating the entanglement of early Egyptian architectural and funerary practices. Supported by a Shelby White and Leon Levy grant, Sergio is also working towards the publication of the documents related to the excavations carried out at the site in the 20^th century, which are of paramount importance to understand one of the most relevant archaeological sites of Egypt.

Sergio is a member of the research group ‘Sound, Space, and the Aesthetics of the Sublime’ of Stanford University, and has also collaborated with the Giza Project of Harvard University. In the field, Sergio has worked with material ranging from the Early Dynastic Period to Ptolemaic times, at sites such as North Saqqara, Deir el-Bahari, Zawyet Sultan, and Qubbet el-Hawa.