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The handle http://hdl.handle.net/1887/22313 holds various files of this Leiden University dissertation.
Author: Doorenbosch, Marieke
Title: Ancestral heaths : reconstructing the barrow landscape in the Central and Southern Netherlands
Issue Date: 2013-11-21
277 acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
I would like to thank all who helped me accomplishing the task of writing this dissertation. I hope I’m not forgetting anyone.
First of all I would like to thank my colleagues from the Ancestral Mounds Project, Quentin Bourgeois, Karsten Wentink, Corrie Bakels, David Fontijn en Annelou van Gijn. As being a freshman in archeology when I started this project almost 5 years ago they greatly helped me with getting acquainted with this beautiful profession.
By having several discussions on the subject, helping me to solve practical problems, structuring my dissertation, etc., they made a great contribution to the final result of this dissertation. I would like to thank the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek - NWO) for financing the Ancestral Mounds Project.
I am very thankful to all who made it possible for me to find suitable sample locations for my research and getting permission to get access to these locations:
Andre ten Hoedt, Poul Hulzink, Klaas van der Laan, Kroondomein Het Loo and Staatsbosbeheer. I would also like to thank the following for joining me (several times) in the field and/or the laboratory: Eric Dullaert, Goof van Eijk and Wim Kuijper. I’m also very grateful to all who provided me with many data without which it would have been impossible to do this research: Prof. W. Groenman, Prof H.T. Waterbolk, Marjolein Bouman, Bas van Geel and Jan Willem de Kort. Then there are several people who helped me out with several problems and difficulties by advising me in the methodology and having very useful discussions with me on the interpretation of the data: Roy van Beek, Harry Fokkens, Hans Huisman, Richard Jansen, Cris van der Linde, Jan van Mourik, Anne Birgitte Nielsen, Joanne Porck, Jan Sevink and Maarten Wispelwey.
Thanks to several colleagues for having all kind of (ir)relevant discussions during well needed breaks from the work: Stijn van As, Erica van Hees, Arjan Louwen, Sasja van der Vaart and Alexander Verpoorte. Thanks go to Hylke de Jong for proof-reading my thesis and Sidestone for editing and publishing my dissertation.
I would like to thank Jelte Rozema and Sjoerd Bohncke for introducing me to palaeoecology and palynology, while I was still a doctoral Biology student at the Free University of Amsterdam.
And last but not least, for all their love and support, I would very much like to thank Zavit, Zev, family and friends.
279 curriculum vitae
CurriculumVitae
Marieke Doorenbosch was born in 1980 in Amsterdam. From 1992 to 1998 she went to the Gymnasium of the Rijksscholen Gemeenschap Lingecollege in Tiel.
In 1998 she started studying Biology at the Free University of Amsterdam from which she graduated in 2003. For her doctoral thesis she studied the effect of UV-B radiation on the vegetation at Svalbard and in addition she studied the vegetation and climate history of Svalbard through palynological analysis.
In 2003-2004 she worked as an adjunct researcher at the Faculty of Systems Ecology at the Free University of Amsterdam and continued the research she started during her doctoral study. As a result she co-authored two articles.
In 2004 she started with the study physical therapy at the Hogeschool Thim van de Laan in Nieuwegein, from which she graduated in 2007. After deciding her heart was still at Biology, she applied for a PhD position in the NWO- funded Ancestral Mounds project at the Faculty of Archeology, Leiden University.
Throughout her PhD she wrote a chapter in two books and presented several lectures at national and international conferences. Currently she’s working as a researcher on a project basis.
