Belgium
Belgian Archaeologist (UGent, 2001). In my career I gained a lot of experience as a researcher, museum staff member and policy advisor. My interests includes Historical Archaeology in all its aspects. Interdisciplinarity is our common thread. Publications and projects are focused on medieval (coastal) Flanders, in particular the West coast (Veurne region): Landscape and Settlement History (Rural and Urban), Building Archaeology, Architecture, Building Materials (stones and ceramics), Bioarchaeology and Heritage policy are main topics of my work.
The 'Golf ter Hille Project' at Koksijde was the main project.
Continued Member of the research group of Prof. dr. Erik Thoen.
The Einhard Institute has been continued under the name Pirenne Institute for Medieval Studies
Research projects Archaeology in coastal Flanders (Belgium) and Zeeland (the Netherlands), as a Member of the research group of Prof. dr. Erik Thoen.
Archaeological survey by trenches, excavation processing and reporting the results about the 'Meijerie' at Desselgem (Waregem, East Flanders, Belgium). This medieval site was a demesne centre of the S.Peters Abbey at Ghent.
Following the displacement of the chair of Prof. drs. Jelier Vervloet to the Social-Spatial Analysis Group.
My research (NWO-fellowship) was part of the Agrarian History Group and supervised by Prof. drs. Jelier Vervloet and Prof. dr. Erik Thoen (UGent, dep. History). I focused on the multidisciplinary study of Lost cultural landscapes in the border area of Flanders and the Netherlands (Zeeuws-Vlaanderen). The study was part of a larger interdisciplinary project financed by the Flemish-Dutch Committee (VNC). The research goal was a reconstruction of the lost medieval landscape in order to get insights in the very beginning, development and transformation period of cultural landscapes in coastal Flanders. The famous Pourbus Map (1570-1601) of the Franc of Bruges was an important guideline. A detailed study of that painting, in confrontation with written sources and numerous archaeological features, has led to the mapping of the well preserved 16th-century cultural landscape and the discovery of unknown settlements within the Oude Yevene (Oostburg and Schoondijke region). For this project, there was a participation with Robert M. van Dierendonck (Stichting Cultureel Erfgoed Zeeland), Prof. dr. Johnny De Meulemeester, Prof. dr. em. Hugo Thoen and Prof. dr. Jean Bourgeois (all UGent, dep. Archaeology), Prof. dr. Marc Antrop and Prof. dr. Philippe De Maeyer (both UGent, dep. Geography), Prof. dr. em. Peter Henderikx (Amsterdam University UvA), John R. Mulder (Wageningen UR) and Prof. dr. ir. Marc Van Meirvenne (UGent, dep. Soil Management).