Van Beek, Lianne (Dr.)
Lianne van Beek studied medieval history at the University of Groningen. She has worked at several archival institutions. Lianne has published about late medieval devotions of the Virgin Mary and a variety of subjects concerning regional history, especially that of Noord-Brabant, Groningen, Friesland and Overijssel. In 2026 she earned her PhD at the University of Groningen. Lianne is currently employed at the Province of Noord-Brabant.
Van de Put, Winfred (Dr.)
Winfred van de Put held the position of director of the Netherlands Institute at Athens from 2014 to 2022. He is a specialist in Attic and Apulian vase-painting, having studied at the University of Amsterdam in the eighties with Professors Hemelrijk and Brijder. He defended his PhD on the development of the iconography on lekythoi at Ghent University in 2012 and taught archaeology at the Universities of Amsterdam, Ghent and Nijmegen (Radboud) from 2005 to 2013. In 2013-2014 he briefly held a position of curator at the Allard Pierson Museum, for which he wrote two fascicles of the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum (3 and 4, comprising all the lekythoi of the museum). He participated in field-work in Lakonia, Carthage, Sozopol (Apollonia Pontica), Boeotia, Thorikos and Halos, mostly involved in finds processing. He is member of the editorial board of Pharos.
Van den Bel, Martijn (Dr.)
Martijn van den Bel has been living and working over a decade as an archaeologist for Inrap in Cayenne (French Guiana) and directs public excavations in the latter French Department as well as the French Antilles. At the moment he is finishing his PhD at the University of Leiden directed by Corinne Hofman and Arie Boomert, discussing the prehistory of the coastal area of French Guiana between the Cayenne and the Maroni Rivers.
Van den Bercken, Ben MA (MA)
Ben van den Bercken (MA) studied Egyptian Archaeology at Leiden University and Museum Studies at the University of Amsterdam. He worked at excavations in Alexandria and as an assistant-curator in the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden (RMO). Since 2021 he is curator for the Ancient Egypt and Sudan collection at the Allard Pierson – the collections of the University of Amsterdam.
Van den Broeke, Peter (Dr.)
After studying Cultural Prehistory at Leiden University, Peter van den Broeke (Vlaardingen 1952) specialized on late prehistoric pottery of the southern Netherlands. The handmade pottery from Oss-Ussen turned out to be a research subject for many years, when combined with, for instance, co-editing and co-writing Nederland in de prehistorie / The Prehistory of the Netherlands (2005). In 2012 the publication about the pottery from Oss-Ussen was accepted as a PhD thesis. Since 1997 the author is working as a senior archaeologist for the municipality of Nijmegen.
Van den Dikkenberg, Lasse (Dr.)
Lasse van den Dikkenberg was born in Zeist in 1993. In 2016 he completed his bachelor’s degree with a thesis on the reuse of urnfields in the southern Netherlands. He completed his Research Master’s thesis cum laude under the supervision of Prof. Dr. David Fontijn, analysing Middle Iron Age burial rituals in the southern Netherlands, Flanders, and the German Rhineland. In 2021 he started his PhD trajectory as part of the Putting Life into Late Neolithic Houses project, headed by Prof. Dr. Annelou van Gijn. He also worked as a microwear specialist in commercial projects, analysing flint tools from Mesolithic and Neolithic excavations in the Netherlands.
Van den Hout, Bram
Bram van den Hout is a researcher and data manager at the International Institute of Social History and his fields of interest are slavery, piracy, and violence in the Dutch East Indian Company. Through the VALUE Foundation he also explores the intersection between video games and history. He co-authored the book Testimonies of Enslavement: Sources on Slavery from the Indian Ocean World (2020) and three articles all on slavery and the slave trade within and around the city of Cochin on the Southwest Indian coast, at the time controlled by the Dutch East India Company.
Van Beek, Lianne (Dr.)
Lianne van Beek studied medieval history at the University of Groningen. She has worked at several archival institutions. Lianne has published about late medieval devotions of the Virgin Mary and a variety of subjects concerning regional history, especially that of Noord-Brabant, Groningen, Friesland and Overijssel. In 2026 she earned her PhD at the University of Groningen. Lianne is currently employed at the Province of Noord-Brabant.
Van de Put, Winfred (Dr.)
Winfred van de Put held the position of director of the Netherlands Institute at Athens from 2014 to 2022. He is a specialist in Attic and Apulian vase-painting, having studied at the University of Amsterdam in the eighties with Professors Hemelrijk and Brijder. He defended his PhD on the development of the iconography on lekythoi at Ghent University in 2012 and taught archaeology at the Universities of Amsterdam, Ghent and Nijmegen (Radboud) from 2005 to 2013. In 2013-2014 he briefly held a position of curator at the Allard Pierson Museum, for which he wrote two fascicles of the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum (3 and 4, comprising all the lekythoi of the museum). He participated in field-work in Lakonia, Carthage, Sozopol (Apollonia Pontica), Boeotia, Thorikos and Halos, mostly involved in finds processing. He is member of the editorial board of Pharos.
Van den Bel, Martijn (Dr.)
Martijn van den Bel has been living and working over a decade as an archaeologist for Inrap in Cayenne (French Guiana) and directs public excavations in the latter French Department as well as the French Antilles. At the moment he is finishing his PhD at the University of Leiden directed by Corinne Hofman and Arie Boomert, discussing the prehistory of the coastal area of French Guiana between the Cayenne and the Maroni Rivers.
Van den Bercken, Ben MA (MA)
Ben van den Bercken (MA) studied Egyptian Archaeology at Leiden University and Museum Studies at the University of Amsterdam. He worked at excavations in Alexandria and as an assistant-curator in the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden (RMO). Since 2021 he is curator for the Ancient Egypt and Sudan collection at the Allard Pierson – the collections of the University of Amsterdam.
Van den Broeke, Peter (Dr.)
After studying Cultural Prehistory at Leiden University, Peter van den Broeke (Vlaardingen 1952) specialized on late prehistoric pottery of the southern Netherlands. The handmade pottery from Oss-Ussen turned out to be a research subject for many years, when combined with, for instance, co-editing and co-writing Nederland in de prehistorie / The Prehistory of the Netherlands (2005). In 2012 the publication about the pottery from Oss-Ussen was accepted as a PhD thesis. Since 1997 the author is working as a senior archaeologist for the municipality of Nijmegen.
Van den Dikkenberg, Lasse (Dr.)
Lasse van den Dikkenberg was born in Zeist in 1993. In 2016 he completed his bachelor’s degree with a thesis on the reuse of urnfields in the southern Netherlands. He completed his Research Master’s thesis cum laude under the supervision of Prof. Dr. David Fontijn, analysing Middle Iron Age burial rituals in the southern Netherlands, Flanders, and the German Rhineland. In 2021 he started his PhD trajectory as part of the Putting Life into Late Neolithic Houses project, headed by Prof. Dr. Annelou van Gijn. He also worked as a microwear specialist in commercial projects, analysing flint tools from Mesolithic and Neolithic excavations in the Netherlands.
Van den Hout, Bram
Bram van den Hout is a researcher and data manager at the International Institute of Social History and his fields of interest are slavery, piracy, and violence in the Dutch East Indian Company. Through the VALUE Foundation he also explores the intersection between video games and history. He co-authored the book Testimonies of Enslavement: Sources on Slavery from the Indian Ocean World (2020) and three articles all on slavery and the slave trade within and around the city of Cochin on the Southwest Indian coast, at the time controlled by the Dutch East India Company.
