A condensed academic CV is provided below. A full extended version is available on request via the contact page; the German version of this CV is available here.

Current and recent academic positions

2024–present — Postdoctoral 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 — Dean’s Award for Multidisciplinary Excellence, EGS3H (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.