The focus of my research is on social processes such as urbanisation and Latinization (the spread of Latin) in the Roman west, with a specific focus on the Iberian Peninsula and the Magreb in Antiquity. Within the ANR/DFG-project ATLAS I research the Late Antique cities of Southern Spain and Tunisia. For the ERC-project LatinNow I study the spread of Latin during the Imperial period, especially on those who learn to speak and write Latin as a second language next to the palaeohispanic languages. My PhD-research on urban settlement on the Iberian Peninsula during the Early Empire has been published as Urbanisation in Roman Spain and Portugal (Routledge 2021). For my research I combine archaeological, epigraphic and historical sources to obtain a clearer picture of these and other social processes. Most of my work uses digital methods, mostly Geographic Information Systems to map and analyse the data. Through this use of GIS I have become interested in the spatiality of epigraphy.

This personal GitHub page is to open my data to a wider public as I am a firm believer in #OpenScience and #Openaccess.

In 2019 Jan Schneider and I conceived the plan to create a workshop to teach QGIS to people studying antiquity. This workshop became an online course during the COVID19 pandemic and can be found here: QGIS for Classical Studies. Since then we have been invited to give the course several times and we have created some smaller bespoke workshops.

Within the ERC-project "An Empire of 2000 Cities" I have written my doctoral thesis published by Routledge as Urbanism of Roman Spain and Portugal. In the upcoming months I will publish more webmaps showing the results of this work.
The first map has been published. Check the description here or go directly to the Juridical status map

Newly published maps will be announced on my personal Twitter account