Teaching

Teaching activities

2025-Present Data science skills and applications II: Advanced analytics. BA course. Institute of Public Administration -Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science, Leiden University (Link).
2024 Introduction to computational Archaeology. MA course. Departamento de Antropología, Universidad del Magdalena.
2023 Archaeology for engineers. PhD course. Faculty of Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering (3mE), TU Delft (Link).
2007 Introduction to Archaeology. BA course. Departamento de Antropología, Universidad Nacional De Colombia.
2006 Archaeology of Americas. BA Course. Departamento de Antropología, Universidad Nacional De Colombia.

Postgraduate Researchers Supervised

2024-Present Sina Mohammadi, Postdoc in machine learning at the MAPHSA project, LIACS, Leiden University.
2024-2025 Natalia Alvarez, Isabel Romero, and Rafael Galindo, researchers at the MAPHSA project, Leiden University - Universidad del Magdalena.
2020 Maia Casna, research assistant in the Ancient Adhesives project, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Delft University of Technology.
2017-2019 Supervisor as lead archaeologist of over 80 cultural heritage projects, each executed by multidisciplinary teams of more than five professionals, including engineers, environmental scientists, and archaeologists.

MSc Thesis Supervisor

2024-Present Hu, Mengjie. Modeling wildfire spread and archaeological site vulnerability in spatiotemporal networks. MSc Computer Sciences thesis. Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Sciences, Leiden University.
2024-Present Kuijt, Jesse. Petri nets to measure technological complexity of stone tool technology. MSc Archaeology thesis, co-supervised with Marie Soressi, Faculty of Archeology, Leiden University.
2023 Zeekaf, Jelte. A glue story: traditional plant use for adhesives in Zambia. MSc Biology Thesis, co-supervised with Tinde van Andel, Wageningen University & Research.

BA Thesis supervisor

2022 Eeken, G.F., T.B. Gietelink, V.L.G. Janszen, and J.R. Vos. Analysis of alloy composition and microstructure with regards to production processes of pre-Hispanic gold artefacts from northern South America. BA Thesis, co-supervised with Geeske Langejans, Faculty of Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering (3mE), TU Delft.
2016 Quiceno Arboleda, Juliana. Estudio de arqueología preventiva en la Vereda La Granjita, Pueblo Nuevo - Córdoba : una aproximación a la vida doméstica prehispánica en las sabanas cercanas a la región del medio y bajo río San Jorge. BA Archaeology Thesis. Departamento de Antropología, Universidad de Antioquia (Link).

Invited lectures

2025 Modelling Ancient Technology with Petri nets. Advanced Archaeology of Hominin Diversity course. Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University.
2024 Unraveling Ancient Technology: A New Approach for measuring complexity. Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar. McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge.
2024 From Above: Revealing prehispanic landscapes in the mountainous tropical forests. Digital Archaeology group Lectures, Faculty of Archaeology. Leiden University
2023 Traditional Adhesive production in zambia. Ethnobotany course. Biosystematics group, Wageningen University & Research
2022 Materials in Archaeology. Materials in art and design course. Faculty of Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering (3mE), TU Delft.