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Arctic and Antarctic Studies

Group Photo Arctic Centre
Group Photo Arctic Centre

About the Research Group

The AAS Research Group is housed at the Arctic Centre, which was founded in 1970, and conducts inter-disciplinary research into the world’s higher-latitude regions. The Archaeology of the Circumpolar Regions has always played a central role in its research operations, and this leads to its institutional embedding within GIA. It hosts an expanding community of PhD and Post-Doc researchers in Circumpolar Archaeology, and the scope of current research projects now extends from deeper prehistory through to the recent past, and cover the full Circumpolar North, stretching from Alaska and the Aleutians, through to Greenland, Svalbard, Northern Eurasia and the Sea of Okhotsk. The Arctic Centre is always looking to recruit new archaeological research talent to help strengthen and diversify its current thematic and geographical coverage. It collaborates closely with the Centre for Isotope Research at the University of Groningen, and also with several leading centres of Archaeological Science across Northern Europe, via the ERC Horizon2020 PhD Innovative Training Network ‘ArchSci2020’. In addition to archaeologists, the Arctic Centre also hosts anthropologists, biologists, ecologists, environmental- and social scientists, and many of these researchers represent the Netherlands as Expert Advisors in the Working Groups of the Arctic Council and the International Arctic Science Committee.

Postdoctoral Fellows

NAME AND PROFESSIONAL PAGE
RESEARCH INTERESTS AND EXPERTISE
PROJECT TITLE
Dr. C.E. (Esteban) Ramírez Hincapié
Living in extreme conditions
SVALUR - Understanding Resilience and Long-Term Environmental Change in the High Arctic: Narrative-Based Analyses from Svalbard
Living with climate change
SVALUR - Understanding Resilience and Long-Term Environmental Change in the High Arctic: Narrative-Based Analyses from Svalbard

Researchers

NAME AND PROFESSIONAL PAGE
YEAR
PROMOTOR(S)
PROJECT TITLE
Prof. dr. mr. C.J. (Kees) Bastmeijer
G. (Giulia) Gai
2023-2027
Prof. dr. mr. C.J. (Kees) Bastmeijer
M.H. (Maddie) Llewellin
2016-2020
Prof. dr. P.D. Jordan / Sven Isaaksson (University of Stockholm)
M.I. (Matilda) Siebrecht

Associate Researchers

NAME AND PROFESSIONAL PAGE
STATUS
RESEARCH INTERESTS AND EXPERTISE
PROJECT TITLE
Christophe Brochard
Taxonomy
Frigga Kruse
Arctic Archaeology
Jouke Prop
Goose polar bear interaction
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