Our team is growing

We recently welcomed three new team members:

• Coralie André is a marine biologist who just obtained her PhD in Geology. She studied the palaeoecology of the former Zwin region using pollen and diatoms, with a focus on the Roman and medieval periods. Now she started working at ArBoReaL, processing and analysing pollen and diatom samples from diverse archaeological projects.

  
  

• Elliot Van Maldegem is an archaeologist who just defended his PhD on population dynamics between the Mesolithic period and the High Medieval period and is now starting a junior FWO postdoc at ArBoReaL. Through quantification of (micro)charcoal, he will explore whether humans during the Mesolithic period used fire to manage their surroundings.

  
  

• Aze Peeters is a Biologist and Cultural Anthropologist and joined ArBoReaL as a PhD researcher. She will investigate human-woodland interaction by analyzing charcoal from archaeological remains of charcoal kilns. The aim is to reconstruct vegetation changes and explore how humans have historically shaped their woodland environments.