Christiane Hochstrasser-Petit is a freelance designer. She has been working in Egypt since 1990. She provided all the graphic documentation for Adaïma (Upper Egypt), Kom el-Khilgan, Tell el-Iswid and Samara (Delta), as part of the missions of the French Institute of Oriental Archeology carried out on these sites. Its activity extended to other Egyptian sites within other French or foreign missions: Saqqara (excavations of the Louvre), Le Ramesseum (CNRS), Wadi Natroun (Center for Alexandrian Studies), Abydos (German excavations of the DAIK). Outside Egypt, she is part of the team of Prof. Eric Crubezy in Yakutia, where she takes care of the reconstitution of the costumes of  men and women buried in the frozen tombs of Siberia (Kyys the shaman). She is also a specialist in rope and basketry objects (Adaïma, Abydos, Tebtynis, Fostat) and as such holds a thesis at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales.