External and Former Staff Profiles

Bart Clijsner is the ICT-manager of the Sagalassos Archaeological Research Project at the KULeuven since 2006. He is also taking care of an interactive database application to register and archive all archaeological (and in the future other interdisciplinary) objects conform to the new locus system.

Bart De Graeve has a masters in ancient history (2001) and archaeology (2004) from KULeuven. After his studies, he worked for a year as an archaeologist in the Netherlands (Dordrecht). He is now preparing a Ph.D. on the urbanization and romanization of Asia Minor under the Flavian emperors.

Koen Demarsin is a Ph.D. student studying the transformation from paganism to Early Christianity in Late Antiquity. After having finished his master thesis (K.U.Leuven) on the burial situation between pagans and Christians in Rome, he completed an extra year at the faculty of Theology (K.U.Leuven) investigating Cyprian's attitude toward non-Christians.

Jan Elsen is a professor of mineralogy at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. His research covers topics related to the industrial use of minerals, currently centered on building materials such as ceramics, mortars, plaster, and concrete. He is trying to characterize the historical lime mortars at Sagalassos and formulate new mixes for restoration work.

Nathalie Kellens is a doctoral student at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and a member of the Sagalassos Archaeological Research Project. She has been documenting the metal finds from the instrumentarium domesticum at Sagalassos since graduating in archaeology in 2001.

Toon Putzeys is a doctoral student at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and a member of the Sagalassos Archaeological Research Project. After graduating in archaeology, he completed an additional education program in computer science focusing on data management and statistics. He is currently developing a methodology for analysis of stratigraphical contexts based on the material from Sagalassos.

Manuel Sintubin is a research associate of the Onderzoeksfonds Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and a professor of structural geology and tectonics. His research at Sagalassos focuses on the reconstruction of the seismic history of the territory. Together with Dominique Similox-Tohon, Griet Verhaert, Philippe Muchez (KULeuven), and Kris Vanneste (Royal Observatory of Belgium), he is trying to identify the seismically active faults and assess the current seismic hazard in the area.

Peter Talloen is a postdoctoral researcher of the Fund of Scientific Research, Flanders, and member of the Sagalassos Archaeological Research Project. In March, he finished his Ph.D. on religious practice in Pisidia from the Hellenistic to the early Byzantine. He is currently studying the Christianization of Pisidia.

Tijl Vereenooghe is a Ph.D. student at the KULeuven. He has participated in the Sagalassos excavations since 1999 and joined the project in 2003. He is currently involved in the new Center for Archaeological Sciences (www.archscience.be) and the European EPOCH network (Excellence in Processing Open Cultural Heritage).