Advisory Board


Professor Amanda Power	Professor Kevin Walsh	Professor Carl Sayer
Professor of Medieval History at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on environmental history, religion, power, and thought, with particular emphasis on global medieval history. She investigates the ancient and medieval roots of contemporary environmental change and contributes to interdisciplinary collaborations that integrate humanities perspectives into scientific and policy discussions on climate change.	Professor Emeritus at the Department of Archaeology, University of York, and Research Associate at the Centre Camille Jullian, Aix-Marseille Université. His research focuses on landscape archaeology and long-term human–environment interactions across the Mediterranean and the European Alps, with particular expertise in pastoral systems, landscape transformation, and environmental change.	Professor at the Department of Geography, University College London. His research focuses on freshwater conservation and restoration, with particular expertise in the ecology and palaeoecology of lakes, rivers, and ponds.
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Professor Mark Gardiner	Professor Eugene Costello	Professor Richard C Hoffmann
Emeritus Professor of Medieval Archaeology at the University of Lincoln. His research focuses on medieval landscapes, land use, and settlement patterns in Britain, Ireland, and the North Atlantic, with particular interest in the relationships between land utilisation and social organisation.	Environmental historian and landscape archaeologist at University College Cork. His research focuses on the role of farming practices in shaping environmental and economic change, and he leads the ERC-funded DeepCattle project on the history of commercial cattle farming in Europe.	Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar at York University. He is an interdisciplinary environmental historian specialising in fisheries, agroecosystems, and the use of natural resources in medieval Europe, integrating historical, archaeological, and palaeoenvironmental approaches.
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Prof. Dr. phil. Gerrit Jasper Schenk	Prof. Dr. Wim De Clercq	Prof. Laurent Lespez
Professor of Medieval History at Technische Universität Darmstadt. His research focuses on environmental history, disaster studies, urban history, infrastructure, and the history of concepts and rituals. He currently leads German Research Foundation-funded projects on the "Fluvial Anthroposphere."	Professor at Ghent University and member of the Historical Archaeology Research Group (HARG). His research focuses on landscape archaeology, settlement development, and material culture in northwestern Europe, particularly the transformation of the medieval landscape around Bruges.	Geomorphologist, geoarchaeologist, and geographer at the University of Paris-Est Créteil and CNRS. His research focuses on long-term environmental and landscape change and the integration of historical trajectories into river management and restoration.
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Dr. W.Z. Hoek	Dr. Catherine Jessen	Dr. Jørn Erik Henriksen
Researcher at the Department of Physical Geography, Utrecht University. His research focuses on Late Weichselian and Holocene climate, vegetation, and landscape interactions, with particular expertise in multi-proxy analyses and dating of lake sediment records.	Geologist and geoarchaeologist at the National Museum of Denmark. Her research focuses on reconstructing past climates, environments, and human-environment interactions through lake sediment analyses, sediment mapping, and stratigraphic investigations.	Associate Professor of Archaeology at the Arctic University Museum of Norway (UiT). His research focuses on the Iron Age and Medieval periods in Northern Norway.
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Mag. Dr. Thomas Kühtreiber	Dr. Lukas Werther	Dr. Martin Janovský
Researcher at the University of Vienna, Institute for Prehistoric and Historical Archaeology. His research focuses on medieval and early modern environmental and landscape archaeology, the built environment, material culture, and the formation of social identities, particularly in relation to religion.	Researcher at the German Archaeological Institute (DAI), Romano-Germanic Commission. His research focuses on landscape archaeology, water management, landscapes of power, and resource use during the Early and High Middle Ages across Europe.	Researcher at Charles University, Department of Archaeology. His research focuses on medieval landscapes and long-term human impacts on soils and sediments, combining geoarchaeological methods including micromorphology, geochemistry, and stable isotope analyses.
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Dr. Kim Cohen
Researcher at the Department of Physical Geography, Utrecht University. His research focuses on Quaternary geology and the Holocene Rhine–Meuse delta, integrating geological and geographical methods to reconstruct landscape evolution and environmental change.
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