I am currently a PhD student working on Dr. Amanda Henry’s ERC-funded HARVEST project, which aims to further our understanding of food choice by integrating multiple methods of calculus sampling (e.g. microscopy, proteomics, DNA analysis, and lipid residues), and maximise the recovered dietary information from dental calculus.

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News

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  19 September 2025 Open Science Survey launched to map awareness and needs across Leiden University
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  29 March 2022 Alex Brandsen and Bjørn Peare Bartholdy interviewed on Digital Scholarship Blog
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  29 March 2022 Cut the tyranny of copy-and-paste with these coding tools
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  02 June 2021 How to start with Open Science: ‘It has increased my workflow efficiency enormously’
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  11 January 2021 Dental remains shed light on drug use in 19th century Dutch village
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  22 June 2020 Carel Stolker: ‘Young researchers, you’re not alone’
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  01 April 2020 Working from home as an Archaeologist: 'As far as I know, no one has ever explored my living room for lost cities'

Leiden Archaeology Blog

PhD supervisor

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  Amanda Henry Professor

Office days

Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.

Research

I am currently a PhD student working on Dr. Amanda Henry’s ERC-funded HARVEST project, which aims to further our understanding of food choice in human evolution. I am exploring the incorporation of food residues in dental calculus by examining their behaviour in a controlled lab setting using in vitro oral biofilm models, and aim to maximise the recovered dietary information from archaeological dental calculus.

Curriculum vitae

I obtained my BSc in archaeology from the University of Calgary and MSc in human osteoarchaeology from Leiden University.

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