Chrystel Brandenburgh

Chrystel Brandenburgh successfully completed her propaedeutic degree in History at the University of Amsterdam in 1994. She continued to study at the Faculty of Archaeology of Leiden University where she obtained a degree in the archaeology of Prehistory of North-western Europe in 1997.

For several years she worked as an archaeologist in the municipality of Breda. From 2003 she became the municipality archaeologist of Leiden, the city where she has been living since her studies.

In 2008 Chrystel registered at the Faculty of Archaeology at Leiden University as a PhD extramural student under supervision of Prof. Willem Willems. During subsequent years she combined her job in Leiden with her PhD-research on early medieval textiles from the Netherlands. Besides her involvement in heritage management and interdisciplinary research regarding the history of Leiden, she has participated in international conferences on the subject of her PhD research and has written several articles on this topic.
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