Published

August 5, 2026

Modified

August 12, 2026

MEMELAND Advisory Board

The Advisory Board comprises experts from a wide range of disciplines.

Members

Dr. Kim Cohen

  • 🏦Researcher, Department of Physical Geography, Utrecht University
  • 🔬Research focus: Quaternary geology and the Holocene Rhine-Meuse delta, combining geological and geographical methods for landscape reconstruction
  • 📬email: k.m.cohen(at)uu.nl

Professor Eugene Costello

  • 🏦Environmental historian and landscape archaeologist, University College Cork
  • 🔬Research focus: farming practices, environmental and economic change, and the ERC DeepCattle project on commercial cattle farming in Europe
  • 📬email: ecostello(at)ucc.ie

Prof. Dr. Wim De Clercq

  • 🏦Professor, Ghent University; Historical Archaeology Research Group (HARG)
  • 🔬Research focus: landscape archaeology, settlement development, and material culture in northwestern Europe, particularly medieval landscape change around Bruges
  • 📬email: w.declercq(at)ugent.be

Professor Mark Gardiner

  • 🏦Emeritus Professor of Medieval Archaeology, University of Lincoln
  • 🔬Research focus: medieval landscapes, land use, and settlement patterns in Britain, Ireland, and the North Atlantic, especially links between land use and social organisation
  • 📬email: mgardiner(at)lincoln.ac.uk

Dr. Jorn Erik Henriksen

  • 🏦Associate Professor of Archaeology, Arctic University Museum of Norway (UiT)
  • 🔬Research focus: Iron Age and Medieval periods in Northern Norway
  • 📬email: jorn.henriksen(at)uit.no

Dr. W.Z. Hoek

  • 🏦Researcher, Department of Physical Geography, Utrecht University
  • 🔬Research focus: Late Weichselian and Holocene climate, vegetation, and landscape interactions, including multi-proxy analyses and dating of lake sediment records
  • 📬email: W.Z.Hoek(at)uu.nl

Professor Richard C Hoffmann

  • 🏦Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar, York University
  • 🔬Research focus: interdisciplinary environmental history of fisheries, agroecosystems, and natural resource use in medieval Europe
  • 📬email: medfish(at)yorku.ca

Dr. Martin Janovsky

  • 🏦Researcher, Department of Archaeology, Charles University
  • 🔬Research focus: medieval landscapes and long-term human impacts on soils and sediments using geoarchaeological methods, including micromorphology, geochemistry, and stable isotopes
  • 📬email: martin.janovsky(at)ff.cuni.cz

Dr. Catherine Jessen

  • 🏦Geologist and geoarchaeologist, National Museum of Denmark
  • 🔬Research focus: reconstruction of past climates, environments, and human-environment interactions through lake sediment analyses, sediment mapping, and stratigraphy
  • 📬email: Catherine.Jessen(at)natmus.dk

Mag. Dr. Thomas Kuhtreiber

  • 🏦Researcher, Institute for Prehistoric and Historical Archaeology, University of Vienna
  • 🔬Research focus: medieval and early modern environmental and landscape archaeology, built environment, material culture, and social identities
  • 📬email: thomas.kuehtreiber(at)univie.ac.at

Prof. Laurent Lespez

  • 🏦Geomorphologist, geoarchaeologist, and geographer, University of Paris-Est Creteil and CNRS
  • 🔬Research focus: long-term environmental and landscape change, and integration of historical trajectories into river management and restoration
  • 📬email: laurent.lespez(at)lgp.cnrs.fr

Professor Amanda Power

  • 🏦Professor of Medieval History, University of Oxford
  • 🔬Research focus: environmental history, religion, power, and thought, with emphasis on global medieval history and the historical roots of contemporary environmental change
  • 📬email: amanda.power(at)history.ox.ac.uk

Professor Carl Sayer

  • 🏦Professor, Department of Geography, University College London
  • 🔬Research focus: freshwater conservation and restoration, including ecology and palaeoecology of lakes, rivers, and ponds
  • 📬email: c.sayer(at)ucl.ac.uk

Prof. Dr. phil. Gerrit Jasper Schenk

  • 🏦Professor of Medieval History, Technische Universitat Darmstadt
  • 🔬Research focus: environmental history, disaster studies, urban history, infrastructure, and history of concepts and rituals; leads projects on the Fluvial Anthroposphere
  • 📬email: schenk(at)pg.tu-darmstadt.de

Professor Kevin Walsh

  • 🏦Professor Emeritus, Department of Archaeology, University of York; Research Associate, Centre Camille Jullian, Aix-Marseille Universite
  • 🔬Research focus: landscape archaeology and long-term human-environment interactions across the Mediterranean and European Alps, including pastoral systems and landscape transformation
  • 📬email: kevin.walsh(at)york.ac.uk

Dr. Lukas Werther

  • 🏦Researcher, German Archaeological Institute (DAI), Romano-Germanic Commission
  • 🔬Research focus: landscape archaeology, water management, landscapes of power, and resource use during the Early and High Middle Ages
  • 📬email: lukas.werther(at)dainst.de
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