I am Assistant Professor (tenure track) of Ancient History, Agricultural History & Food History at the research group Interdisciplinary Historical Food Studies (FOST), Department of History and at the research group Industrial Microbiology and Food Biotechnology (IMDO), Department of Bioengineering Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. My main interests are ancient diet and nutrition and broader premodern agricultural economics, topics that I approach through a disciplinary combination of socioeconomic history, ethnoarchaeobotany, and biochemistry.