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 der Berg, Belia (Dr.)
Belia van den Berg heeft zich gespecialiseerd in gedrag en dynamiek in teams, met name in innovatieve omgevingen. Vanuit Genius Groups en Oceantree adviseert zij organisaties en teams. Eerder werkte zij als adviseur en business unit manager bij een groot adviesbureau. Zij is coauteur van ‘IMPACT’, een boek over Large Scale Interventions. Haar proefschrift, ‘Net het echte leven’ gaat over teamdynamiek.
van der Leije, Judith MA (MA)
Judith van der Leije studied Archaeology at the University of Leiden, with Pleistocene zooarchaeology as main focus. After graduating in 2007 she participating in excavations on Paleolithic sites in Austria and the UAE. In 2009 she started working at the commercial excavation company of Leiden: Archol. Since then she conducted numerous excavations in several parts of the Netherlands, mainly focused on prehistoric sites. Since 2017 she works as senior project leader.
Van der Velde, H.M.
Henk van der Velde is head of Archaeology of ADC ArcheoProjecten, a Dutch archaeological firm. He is also director of the ADC-Stichting RoelBrandt and affiliated to several universities in the Netherlands and Belgium. He obtained his PhD at the Free University (Amsterdam) on the Long term history of Pleistocene coversand area in the East of the Netherlands (2011). His research stretches from the later Prehistory until the Early Middle Ages.
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 der Berg, Belia (Dr.)
Belia van den Berg heeft zich gespecialiseerd in gedrag en dynamiek in teams, met name in innovatieve omgevingen. Vanuit Genius Groups en Oceantree adviseert zij organisaties en teams. Eerder werkte zij als adviseur en business unit manager bij een groot adviesbureau. Zij is coauteur van ‘IMPACT’, een boek over Large Scale Interventions. Haar proefschrift, ‘Net het echte leven’ gaat over teamdynamiek.
van der Leije, Judith MA (MA)
Judith van der Leije studied Archaeology at the University of Leiden, with Pleistocene zooarchaeology as main focus. After graduating in 2007 she participating in excavations on Paleolithic sites in Austria and the UAE. In 2009 she started working at the commercial excavation company of Leiden: Archol. Since then she conducted numerous excavations in several parts of the Netherlands, mainly focused on prehistoric sites. Since 2017 she works as senior project leader.
Van der Velde, H.M.
Henk van der Velde is head of Archaeology of ADC ArcheoProjecten, a Dutch archaeological firm. He is also director of the ADC-Stichting RoelBrandt and affiliated to several universities in the Netherlands and Belgium. He obtained his PhD at the Free University (Amsterdam) on the Long term history of Pleistocene coversand area in the East of the Netherlands (2011). His research stretches from the later Prehistory until the Early Middle Ages.












