As of 1 September 2021, I am affiliated with Utrecht University as Educational Programm Director of the N.W. Posthumus Institute.

At the Centre for Urban History (University of Antwerp) I was copromotor of research project "Mapping the Market. The Credit Transactions of Antwerp's Business Community in the 19th Century." (see below).

Originally a social scientist from Tilburg University, I have worked for more than fifteen years in the IT and financial sector. In 2016 I returned to the academic world as PhD student on the GIStorical Antwerp project (University of Antwerp). Over the years I have built extensive expertise in using socio-spatial research methodology and applying GIS tools in historical research.

Mapping the Market. The Credit Transactions of Antwerp's Business Community in the 19th Century

This research project, financially supported by the National Bank of Belgium (NBB), studies the evolution of social and spatial credit networks in Antwerp between 1800 and 1900. Both credit relationships through notaries and so-called peer-to-peer private deeds are the subject of research.