I am an Assistant Professor (tenure track) at the departments of Soil Geography and Landscape (SGL) and Cultural Geography (GEO) of Wageningen University & Research. My main interests are:

(1) the dynamic relations between human and landscape in prehistory and early history;
(2) interdisciplinary research (especially the interplay between data from the humanities and various ‘sciences’);
(3) methodological and theoretical innovation in the field of landscape archaeology and history;
(4) the application of scientific data in heritage management. 

My current NWO Vidi-project 'Home Turf' centers on the long-term history of raised bogs in the Pleistocene parts of the Netherlands and adjacent areas. I am the Principal Investigator of the JPI-CH project 'WETFUTURES': Wetland Futures in Contested Environments: an inter- and transdisciplinary approach to wetland heritage in the Netherlands, United Kingdom and Ireland?. Additionally, I am joint leader of the NWA project EARTHWORK. In this research we focus on the application and improvement of OSL techniques in investigations of anthropogenic earthworks in the Netherlands.

NWO Vidi project:

Home Turf. An integrated approach to the long-term development, cultural connections and heritage management of Dutch raised bogs