Dirk van Miert is principal investigator and project leader of the ERC funded project ‘Sharing Knowledge in Learned and Literary Networks – The Republic of Letters as a Pan-European Knowledge Society’ (SKILLNET). He…

Isabelle Buhre is a research assistant at the SKILLNET project. She studied Latin language and literature at the University of Amsterdam and KU Leuven (BA), and political science at the…

Robin Buning is project assistant in the SKILLNET project. He received his MA in classics from Leiden University and his PhD in the history of philosophy from Utrecht University. He then…

Karen Hollewand is a postdoc in the SKILLNET project and concentrates on the conceptual history of the ideal of sharing knowledge in the Republic of Letters. She received a BA…

Manuel Llano is a PhD candidate in the SKILLNET project. He studied Philosophy of Culture and Media Studies at Leiden University, after earning a degree in Philosophy from the Autonomous…

Leonie Price is an Associate Research Fellow working on the SKILLNET project. She holds a BA in History from Durham University and recently graduated with an MA in Historical Research…

Koen Scholten is a PhD candidate in the SKILLNET project. He obtained a BSc in Applied Physics from Delft University and an MSc in History and Philosophy of Science from…

Halfdan Simonsen is an MA student interning in the SKILLNET project. He obtained his BA in history from the University of Bergen and then worked with artists and musicians establishing an…

Samantha Sint Nicolaas is an MA student interning in the SKILLNET project. She graduated in history from Durham University last summer. Having been introduced to French cultural history during her…