Joanne Mol is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Archaeology.

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Office Days

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday

Research

My current research focuses on natural site formation processes and archaeological prospection in the Netherlands.

In collaboration with Richard Jansen, I am conducting research in the province of Zeeland, where we investigate human activities in relation to landscape dynamics during the Iron Age. Fieldwork, including coring and geophysical surveys, was carried out in 2024 and 2025, with further investigations planned in the coming years.

I am also involved in research in the Oss region, as part of the Faculty of Archaeology's annual Field School. This work centres on settlement location choices and human-induced landscape transformations during the Late Prehistory and Roman period.

Teaching activities

I teach our BA1 course Natural Landscapes and together with my colleagues from our Field Research Education Centre, I am supervising our BA1 Field School. I am also coordinator of the bachelor’s thesis. Together with Richard Jansen, I teach a BA2 elective about Iron age settlements in the SW Netherlands and we offer fieldwork. I also occasionally give guest lectures about geoarchaeology and dating in the master’s programme.

I am available to supervise Bachelor's, Master's, and Research Master's theses.

Curriculum vitae

I hold a degree in Earth Sciences from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and completed my PhD on climate-induced river dynamics during the Last Glacial in eastern Germany. Since 1997, I have been affiliated with the Faculty of Archaeology, contributing as a specialist to many excavations in the Netherlands and a few in France, with a focus on prehistoric contexts.

From 2011 to 2024, I served as Director of Education at the Faculty of Archaeology, overseeing educational quality and leading curriculum development for our Bachelor's and (Research) Master's programmes. I completed an Educational Leadership course (CEUT, Utrecht University) in 2013 and an Academic Leadership course (Leiden University) in 2016. I obtained my SKO (Senior University Teaching Qualification) in 2018.

I am currently engaged in teaching and in the development of several research projects in landscape archaeology, with a particular emphasis on the Dutch landscape. I am officially registered as a Senior KNA Prospector and Senior KNA Specialist in Physical Geography under Dutch heritage legislation, which is required to conduct archaeological field research in the Netherlands.

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