PhD Ancient History, University of St Andrews, Scotland, UK. Thesis entitled ‘Wealth, rank and officeholding in Roman Italy: a quantitative study’. Academic advisor: Myles Lavan.
Dec 2015 – Mar 2017
MA Ancient Languages (cum laude), Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Thesis entitled ‘Celeritas Caesariana: Reputation, Representation and Reality’. Academic advisors: Annemarie de Villiers and Annemaré Kotzé.
Sep 2010 – Aug 2015
BA Ancient History and Latin (cum laude), Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Thesis entitled ‘Identicide in Gaul’. Academic advisors: Lidewij van Gils and Nico Roymans.
Dec 2005 – Aug 2011
PhD Chemical Engineering, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. Thesis entitled ‘Multiburner Flameless Combustion furnaces’. Academic advisors: Prof Wiebren de Jong and Prof Dirk Roekaerts.
Sep 1999 – Aug 2005
MEng Chemical Engineering, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. Thesis entitled ‘A Kinetic Study of the Acidic Hydrolysis of Water Hyacinth to Levulinic Acid’. Academic supervisors: Buana Girisuta and Erik Heeres.
Modern languages: Dutch (mother tongue), English (fluent), Italian (very good), German (good), French (good), Spanish (basic knowledge), Hebrew (basic knowledge)
Ancient languages: Latin (excellent knowledge), Greek (basic knowledge)
Programming languages: R (excellent), Python (advanced), QGIS (advanced), NetLogo (basic)
Teaching
I have taught courses on BA1–BA3 and MA level. Subjects include general Republican and Imperial Roman History, inequality and slavery in the Roman empire, and interconnectivity in the premodern Mediterranean. I also taught elementary Latin language acquisition.
Thesis supervision record:
Institution
Period
PhD
MA/Meng
BA/BEng
Groningen University
2022 – today
–
3
–
Leiden University
2021 – 2022
–
3
2
Stellenbosch University
2014 – 2018
2
5
1
Delft University of Technology
2011 – 2015
1
2
–
Other responsibilities
Member of the Programme Committee BA and MA History at Groningen University (2022 – today)
Reviewer for various peer-reviewed journals (2009 – today)
External reviewer for grant proposals to the EU Horizon 2020 programme (2016)
Student member of the Programme Committee Oudheidkunde at VU Amsterdam (2012 – 2013)
Student member of the accreditation panel for the BA Oudheidkunde at VU Amsterdam (2012)