Jorrit Kelder is Senior Grant Advisor with Luris, Knowledge Exchange Office of Leiden University and Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC). In addition, he is a Guest Researcher at Leiden University Institute for Area Studies (LIAS).

Jorrit is contact person for research areas in humanities and social sciences. Meet up with Jorrit on Thursdays in the cafetaria of the Faculty of Archaeology from 13.00 till 16.00.

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Jorrit Kelder is Senior Grant Advisor with Luris, Knowledge Exchange Office of Leiden University and Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC). In addition, he is a Guest Researcher at Leiden University Institute for Area Studies (LIAS).

In his capacity as a Senior Grant Advisor, Jorrit supports academics from Leiden University’s Faculty of the Humanities, the Law Faculty, the Faculty of Archaeology and the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, as well as various research institutes (including the Netherlands Institute for Near Eastern Studies and the African Studies Centre).

Jorrit’s academic background is in Mediterranean Archaeology and Ancient History. He received his MA from the University of Amsterdam in 2003, and his PhD at the Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam in 2009.

In addition to his positions in Leiden, Jorrit is an associate member of the Sub-Faculty of Near and Middle Eastern Studies of the University of Oxford, and a member of the Common Room at Wolfson College, Oxford. He is also a guest curator at the Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam, and an adviser to the Visual Arts and Heritage committee of the Mondriaan Foundation. In addition, he is currently involved in a research project at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles on the connections between Egypt and the Classical World, which will result in the 2018 exhibiton "Beyond the Nile: Egypt and the Classical World". Most of publications can be consulted on Jorrit's academia.edu website.

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