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Ann Brysbaert is the new director Netherlands Institute at Athens

11 February 2022

Prof. Ann Brysbaert has been appointed as Director of the Netherlands Institute at Athens by the Executive Board of the University of Amsterdam. From 1 March 2022 onwards, she succeeds Dr Winfred van de Put who returns back to the Netherlands after having served 7.5 years as Director at NIA.

Ann Brysbaert is professor of Ancient Technologies, Materials and Crafts and has been working with these themes within the context of Greek and East Mediterranean Archaeology for over 30 years. As such, she brings the alfa-beta-gamma disciplines together in her research and teaching. In her new capacity, Ann returns to Athens from the University of Leiden where she will remain in service part-time. Over the years, she established a wide network in Greece and beyond of people at other foreign institutes and schools, at the antiquity authorities, universities, and museums and heritage organisations.

Ann Brysbaert studied Archaeology (MA, KULeuven) and Conservation of Archaeological Materials (BSc. Honors, UCL, London). After she worked several years in the field and in museums as conservator of archaeological remains, she received her PhD at Glasgow University. Following this, she held several academic positions: at the University of Leicester, DIKEMES-CYA (Athens), Université Bordeaux Montaigne, Heidelberg University, Glasgow University, and, since 2013, at Leiden University. Between 2015 and 2022, she was Principal Investigator of the ERC Consolidator project ‘SETinSTONE’, and she was director of research in the Board of the Faculty of Archaeology (2016-18).

About the NIA

The Netherlands Institute at Athens (NIA) functions as an interuniversity, academic institute, that coordinates, stimulates and facilitates educational and research programs in cooperation with universities and research centres in the Netherlands and Greece. It also has a broad and high quality academic network in both countries. The NIA is one of the nineteen foreign academic institutes operating in Athens. Under the aegis of the Institute, scholars and students from the Netherlands conduct archaeological research in Greece.

The NIA is one of the Dutch Scientific Institutes Abroad (NWIB) which are jointly managed and financed by the University of Amsterdam, Utrecht University, Leiden University, the University of Groningen, VU University Amsterdam and Radboud University.