Employment and qualifications

• Postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of the History, Philosophy, and Ethics of Medicine, Universität Ulm, Germany (from October 2024)
• Lecturer at the Institute of Classics, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany (October 2023 – April 2024)
• Guest Researcher at the ‘Graduiertenkolleg’ Early Concepts of Humans and Nature: Universal, Specific, Interchanged, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Germany (2022-2024)
• PhD in Ancient Philosophy/Classics. Thesis: ‘The Epistemology of Artefact Comparisons in Early Greek Natural Philosophy and Medicine’, funded by the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds and the A.G. Leventis Foundation, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (2018-2022)
• Educational Module, granting the qualification to teach 12-15 years old pupils Greek and Latin at Dutch high-schools (‘tweedegraadsbevoegdheid’), Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands (2018)
• Research-master Classics and Ancient Civilizations (track Classics), Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands (2015-2018) Bachelor Greek and Latin Language and Culture, Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands (2012-2015)

 

Languages

Dutch (native), English (C2), German (C1/C2), French (B1/B2), Latin, Ancient Greek

 

Research interests

Graeco-Roman medicine and natural philosophy, analogies in the history of science and literature, embryology and gynaecology in the Graeco-Roman world