Gert-Jan Burgers

Gert-Jan Burgers is full professor in the History and Heritage of Cultural Landscapes and Urban Environments at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VUA). He is also coordinator of the EU Marie Curie International Training Network 'Heriland' and director of CLUE , the VUA interfaculty Institute for Culture, Cognition, History and Heritage.The greater part of his academic career Burgers has been concerned with urban and rural landscape archaeology and spatial and critical heritage studies (conceptually as well as applied), in particular in the Mediterranean. He has published eleven books and over eighty articles, delivered over fifty invited papers at international conferences, and organised twentyfive international workshops and congresses. He was director of the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (2012-2013) and head of the heritage and ancient studies departments of the same institute (2006-2013). In this capacity he has built up an extensive international network of researchers from a range of academic disciplines, as well as from the field of heritage policies (including heritage managers, policy makers, urban planners, architects and citizen associations).Burgers is member of numerous professional bodies, e.g. of the Dutch National Archaeological Reseach School Archon, of the Advisory Board of the journal Siris. Studi e Ricerche della Scuola di Specializzazione in Archeologia di Matera, of the scientific board of the National Archaeological Museum of Taranto (MARTA), of the scientific board of the Excellence project SFB 1070 "RessourcenKulturen", University of Tubingen, of the Board of Herity International, of the Scientific Committee of the EU Joint Programme Initiative on Cultural Heritage
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