A condensed academic CV is provided below. A full extended version is available on request via the contact page; A German-language version of this CV is available upon request — please use the contact form.

Current and recent academic positions

2024–present — Academic Researcher, BMS-KiTeS, University of Twente (0.75 FTE). Workpackage 2 of the HAICu consortium: Continual Machine Learning with Humans in the Loop. Co-coordinator, Innovation Lab Histories of Ordinary People (with René Duursma, Groninger Archieven).

2025– — Principal Investigator, HISMET (NWO XS Grant). Supervising four student assistants on the development of a tool for topical metadata creation for archival sources.

2023–present — Associated Researcher, Walter Benjamin Kolleg, University of Bern.

2020–2024 — Postdoctoral Researcher, A Game of Thrones? Social Order and Governance in the Dutch Republic and the Swiss Confederation, 1576–1701 (NWO Veni). Huygens ING, Amsterdam (0.75 FTE).

2017–2020 — Postdoctoral Researcher, Law and Order in the Low Countries (NWO Rubicon). Ghent University (0.75 FTE).

May–October 2019 — Researcher-in-Residence, Royal Library (KB), The Hague (0.25 FTE; half year).

2011–2016 — PhD Researcher, New Monarchy project, Erasmus University Rotterdam. Defended 7 January 2016.

Editorial, governance, and service roles (current)

  • Chair of the Board (since May 2025), READ-COOP SCE.
  • Co-Editor-in-Chief, Journal for Digital Legal History (with D. Heirbaut and F. Volkaert, UGent).
  • Co-Chair, RHONDA — Research in Historical Ordinances and Normative Data (with A. Wagner, MPI).
  • Member, Management Committee, COST Action Print Culture and Public Spheres in Central Europe 1500–1800 (PCPSce – CA23137); Co-Chair YRI (Young Researchers & Innovators).
  • Member, Advisory Board, Adam Matthew Digital (until 2026).
  • Chair, BeNeLux Group preparing the 500-year commemoration of the Collateral Councils (1531–2031).
  • Member, Data4History Consortium.
  • Certified Trainer for Transkribus (since 2020).

Education

2023–2024 — ECHA Diploma, Specialist in Gifted Education and Talent Development. ICBF, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (DE). Thesis: Obtaining and Maintaining Execution Power: Exploring Learning Strategies and Motivation of Gifted (PhD-)Students in (Post-)Higher Education. Result: with highest distinction (cum laude).

2015–2016 — University Teaching Qualification (UTQ / BKO), RISBO, Erasmus University Rotterdam.

2011–2016 — PhD in History, Erasmus University Rotterdam. Dissertation: The Use of Fatherland, Patria and Patriot in the Cases of Jülich, Hesse-Cassel and Brittany (1642–1655). Political Arguments in an Age of Confrontation. Supervisor: Prof. Dr R. C. F. von Friedeburg.

2007–2008 — MA in History and Political Science (Postgraduate Teacher Training, 60 ECTS); MA in Social Sciences and Civics (30 ECTS). Both at Leiden University (ICLON).

2006–2007 — MA in History of Society (Gesellschaftsgeschichte), Erasmus University Rotterdam (80 ECTS).

2003–2006 — BA in History, Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Selected awards and grants

  • 2025 — NWO XS Grant: HISMET (€49,979).
  • 2024 — ECHA Diploma, cum laude, ICBF/WWU Münster.
  • 2022 — Transkribus Fellowship (competitive).
  • 2021 — NWO Open Access Book Grant for Protecting the Fatherland (€10,000).
  • 2019 — NWO Veni Grant (€250,000); Researcher-in-Residence, KB.
  • 2017 — NWO Rubicon Grant (€132,500).
  • 2014 — DAME (Dean’s Award for Academic Multidisciplinary Excellence), Erasmus Graduate School of Social Sciences and the Humanities (EGGS3H), Erasmus University Rotterdam. Awarded for the best pitch at the annual sustainability theme day. With E. Koopman and M. van Ostaijen.
  • 2014 — Wolfenbüttel Summer Course Fellowship (highly competitive).

Total third-party funding to date: close to €500,000.

Languages

  • Dutch — native speaker.
  • English — C2 (Cambridge Certificate, 2014).
  • German — C1 (Goethe-Institut, 2016); passive knowledge of Bärndütsch.
  • French — B1/B2 (currently).
  • Latin — basic knowledge.