CURRICULUM VITAE

I. Personal information Name: Soetkin Vervust Address: Stakendijke 15, 8340 Sijsele-Damme (BE) 47 Aspen Grove, Burnopfield, NE16 6QP, Newcastle upon Tyne (UK) E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Telephone: 0032 496 62 63 27 (BE) 0044 78 53 36 53 36 (UK) Date of birth: 14/02/1986 Nationality: Belgian

❖ Language skills: Dutch (mother tongue), English (bilingual level), French (far advanced, CEFR C1), German (advanced, CEFR B2), Italian (basic, CEFR A2), Spanish (basic, CEFR A1) ❖ ICT knowledge: Microsoft Office, QGIS, ArcGIS ❖ Surveying expertise with total station and differential GPS

II. Education 10/2011 – 27/06/2016 PhD in Geography Title: Deconstructing the Ferraris Maps (1770-1778): a study of the map production process and its implications for geometric accuracy Ghent University / Faculty of Sciences / Department of Geography / Ghent, Belgium

09/2008 – 09/2010 Master of Science in Geography (Summa cum laude) Specialisation: Physical Geography, Landscape Archaeology and Geo-ICT Ghent University / Faculty of Sciences / Department of Geography / Ghent, Belgium

09/2007 – 09/2008 Master of Arts in Archaeology (Magna cum laude) Specialisation: Landscape Archaeology Ghent University / Faculty of Arts and Philosophy / Department of Archaeology / Ghent, Belgium

09/2004 – 07/2007 Bachelor of Arts in Archaeology (Magna cum laude) Specialisation: Landscape Archaeology Ghent University / Faculty of Arts and Philosophy / Department of Archaeology / Ghent, Belgium

III. Work experience 06/2017 – present [PEGASUS]² Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Newcastle University, United Kingdom and the Department of Art Studies and Archaeology, VUB, Belgium 08/2015 – present Executive secretary, International Cartographic Association (ICA), Commission on the History of Cartography 11/2016 – 05/2017 Scientific researcher at the Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels, Belgium 10/2011 – 07/2016 Full-time PhD researcher at Department of Geography, Ghent University, Belgium 10/2010 – 9/2011 Scientific researcher on the FWO funded project ‘Closer view on the Carte de cabinet of Ferraris: new investigations using new techniques’ at Department of Geography, Ghent University, Belgium IV. Conferences a. Presentations 25th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, Bern, Switzerland, 05/09/2019. Presentation title: “Tracing the long-term development of the medieval rural landscape at the National Trust’s Wallington Estate (Northumberland, UK)”. Yorkshire Palaeo Group meeting, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, 24/04/2019. Presentation title: “3500 years of farming at Bosigran: profiling and dating West Cornish field systems with Optically Stimulated Luminescence”. UK Luminescence and ESR Dating Meeting, Sheffield, United Kingdom, 11/09/2018. Poster Presentation title: “OSL profiling and dating of historic field boundaries at the National Trust’s Wallington Estate (Northumberland)”. 6th International Symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 14/10/2016. Presentation title: “Deciphering the production process of Count de Ferraris’s maps of the Austrian Netherlands (1770s) through a study of their geometric accuracy”. 6th International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science, Lisbon, Portugal, 05/09/2014. Presentation title: “Habsburg cartography with French scientific flair: the example of the 18th century Ferraris maps”. 25th International Conference on the History of Cartography, Helsinki, Finland, 05/07/2013. Presentation title: “From cartography of conquest to cartographic cooperation”. 127th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, New Orleans, USA, 05/01/2013. Presentation title: “Cassini’s geodetic contribution to the Ferraris maps”. 24th International Conference on the History of Cartography, Moscow, Russia, 13/07/2011. Presentation title: “How accurate can a legend be? The case of the Ferraris map”.

b. Organisation ICA Workshop, Cartography as a Cultural Encounter: How East and West have Mapped and Influenced Each Other, Tokyo, Japan (15/07/2019) ICA Workshop, Controlling the Waters: Seas, Lakes and Rivers on Historic Maps and Charts, Utrecht, The Netherlands (12/07/2019) 5th Landscape Archaeology Conference, Newcastle upon Tyne and Durham, United Kingdom (17- 20/09/2018) 7th International Symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography, Mapping Empires. Colonial Cartographies of Land and Sea. Oxford, United Kingdom (13-15/09/2018) International Symposium, Mapping Asia: Cartographic Encounters between East and West. Leiden, The Netherlands (15-16/09/2017) ICA Workshop, Charting the Cosmos of Cartography: History – Names - Atlases, Washington, USA (28-30/06/2017) 6th International Symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography, The Dissemination of Cartographic Knowledge. Production – Trade – Consumption – Preservation. Dubrovnik, Croatia (13-15/10/2016) 5th International Symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography, Cartography in Times of War and Peace, Ghent and Brussels, Belgium (02-05/12/2014) 2nd EuroSDR Workshop on the Preservation of the Geographical Production Process, Ghent, Belgium (01/12/2014) Conference Mercator Revisited – Cartography in the Age of Discovery, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium (25- 28/04/2012) Exhibition Mercator Digitaal, Sint-Niklaas, België (04/03/2012 – 26/08/2012)

V. International research mobility Two-year [PEGASUS]² Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship: 06/2017-06/2019 Research Associate at the McCord Centre for Landscape and the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Newcastle University, United Kingdom 04/2018 and Research stays at the Luminescence Laboratories of the University of St 01/2019 Andrews, United Kingdom

Several research stays at archives and cartographic institutes abroad to consult reference material in the framework of my PhD project: 01/2015 Nationaal Archief, The Hague, The Netherlands 11/2014 Österreichisches Staatsarchiv, Vienna, Austria 09/2012 Service Historique de la Défense, Vincennes, France 11/2011 Österreichisches Staatsarchiv, Vienna, Austria 10/2011 Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France 09/2011 Österreichisches Staatsarchiv, Vienna, Austria

Research expeditions undertaken at Master and Bachelor level: 09/2009 Potenza Valley Survey project in Le Marche, Italy (Ghent University) | Archaeo-geographical fieldwork, studying links between physical landscape and archaeological remains in case study area of Roman Trea in framework of Master thesis 06-07/2009 Research stay at the Academia Belgica in Rome, Italy | Consultation of reference material in several academic institutions and libraries in framework of Master thesis 09/2007 Excavation project in Mariana, Corsica (Roman, medieval) (Ghent University, University of Cassino, CNRS) | Excavation, classification of finds, drawing, geophysical prospection

VI. Membership of scientific societies Executive Secretary of the International Cartographic Association’s (ICA) Commission on the History of Cartography Member of the editorial board of the Brussels Map Circle’s Maps in History journal Member of ICOMOS Flanders/International Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, UK

VII. Teaching and mentoring activities 10/2017 Teaching assistant for seminars Fieldwork and Archaeological Practice, undergraduate BA in Archaeology, Newcastle University 06-07/2017 Supervisor of field school for undergraduate Archaeology students of Newcastle University at Wallington Hall landscape park and gardens in Northumberland, comprising of excavations and topographical and geophysical surveys 2015 Co-supervisor of postgraduate MSc thesis in Geography, Ghent University / topic: “Reconstructing medieval parish borders on the Ferraris map in a historical GIS” 2012-2016 Lecturer for Historical Cartography, postgraduate MSc in Geography, Ghent University 2012-2014 Teaching assistant for Geomatics, undergraduate BSc in Geography and BA in Archaeology, Ghent University 01/2012 Invited lecturer for the Reading old maps course, Institute for Further Education in Sciences (IPVW), Ghent University / topic: “Cartography in the 18th century” 2010-2013 Teaching assistant for Geomobile project, providing introductory courses in topography and GIS to secondary school students, Ghent University, Catholic University Leuven and Vrije Universiteit Brussels

SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS

2019 Vervust, S., Kinnaird, T., Herring, P., Turner, S. (2019) Dating earthworks using optically-stimulated luminescence profiling and dating (OSL-PD): the creation and development of prehistoric field boundaries at Bosigran, Cornwall (UK). Antiquity (accepted for publication 14/08/2019).

Kent, A.J., Vervust, S., Demhardt, I.J., Millea, N. (eds.) (2019) Mapping Empires: Colonial Cartographies of Land and Sea. 7th International Symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography, 2018. Springer Nature Switzerland AG, Cham.

2018 Vervust, S., Claeys Boùùaert, M., De Baets, B., Van de Weghe, N., De Maeyer, P. (2018) A study of the local geometric accuracy of count de Ferraris’s Carte de cabinet (1770s) using Differential Distortion Analysis. Cartographic Journal, 55(1), 16-35.

2017 Vervust, S. (2017) Studying the production process of the Ferraris Maps (1770s) and its implications for geometric accuracy. Maps in History, 57, 18-22.

Altic, M., Demhardt, I.J., Vervust, S. (eds.) (2017) Dissemination of Cartographic Knowledge. 6th International Symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography, 2016. Springer International Publishing AG, Cham.

2016 Vervust, S. (2016) Deconstructing the Ferraris maps (1770-1778): a study of the map production process and its implications for geometric accuracy. PhD dissertation, Universiteit Gent, Gent.

Vervust, S. (2016) Count de Ferraris’s Maps of the Austrian Netherlands (1770s): Cassini de Thury’s Geodetic Contribution. Imago Mundi: The International Journal for the History of Cartography, 68(2), 164-182.

Claeys Boùùaert, M., De Baets, B., Vervust, S., Neutens, N., Van de Weghe, N. (2016) Computation and visualisation of the accuracy of old maps using differential distortion analysis. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 30(7), 1255-1280.

Liebenberg, E., Demhardt, I.J., Vervust, S. (eds.) (2016) History of Military Cartography. 5th International Symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography, 2014. Springer International Publishing, Berlin Heidelberg.

Vervust, S. (2016) Book Review – The Mapmakers’ World. A Cultural History of the European World Map. By Marjo T. Nurminen. Imago Mundi: The International Journal for the History of Cartography, 68(2), 248.

2015 Vervust, S. (2015) Habsburg cartography with French scientific flair. The circulation of mapmaking principles in the eighteenth century through the example of the Ferraris maps. Caert Thresoor, 34(2), 88-97.

Vervust, S. (2015) Een stukje Frankrijk. In Bracke, W., Leenders, E. (eds.), Vlaanderen in 100 kaarten. Davidsfonds Uitgeverij, Leuven.

Ooms, K., De Maeyer, P., De Wit, B., Maddens, R., Nuttens, T., Van de Weghe, N., Vervust, S. (2015). Design and use of web lectures to enhance GIS teaching and learning strategies: the students' opinions. Cartography and Geographic Information Science, 42(3), 271-282.

2014 Vervust, S., Tallir, S. (2014) De Belgische provincie Limburg op de Kabinetskaart van Ferraris (1770- 1778). Caert-Thresoor, 33 (3), 75-79.

2012 Vervust, S., Ooghe, B., De Maeyer, P. (eds.) (2012). Mercator Revisited. Cartography in the Age of Discovery - Conference Proceedings. Sint-Niklaas 25-28 April 2012. University Press, Zelzate.

De Coene, K., Ongena, T., Stragier, F., Vervust, S., Bracke, W., De Maeyer, P. (2012). Ferraris, the legend. Cartographic Journal, 49(1), 30-42.

Vervust, S. (2012) How I Got Into cartography. Maps in History, 44, 29-30.