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Specialized in research on the interface between the Earth Sciences and Archaeology to investigate Quaternary human-environment interactions. Skilled in performing detailed lithostratigraphical studies after coring and outcrop investigations, including sediment laboratory analyses (grain size analysis, carbon and organic matter content), for landscape reconstructions in relation to the (surface) archaeological material record in current arid environments. I have experience with geo-, and archaeological research in Egypt (Fayum), Australia (Cape York), Jordan (Jordan Valley), Syria (Tell Sabi Abyad), and in the Netherlands (Veldhoven). Passionate about teaching undergraduate students of the added value of geoarchaeological research for informing and enhancing archaeological investigations. I am interested in developing an academic career which combines teaching and research, within the interdisciplinary field of geoarchaeology.

I am currently involved in a PhD research in which I use a geoarchaeological approach to (re)consider and determine the true relationship between Fayum local geomorphic history, including oscillations of levels of Lake Qarun, the Egyptian Nile river bed, and Fayum prehistoric occupation during the Early to Middle Holocene. New insights on Fayum water variability and therefore resource availability will permit reliable inferences on reasons for abandonment of the depression c. 6000 years ago.

Research is performed at the Faculty of Humanities of the VU Amsterdam, and involves close collaboration with members of the VU Department of Earth Sciences. Research builds forth on earlier work performed by the PhD candidate in the Fayum basin, under direction of the UCLA/ RUG/ UoA Fayum Project.