University of Antwerp (Belgium).
Geerd De Ceulaerde graduated in 2011 with a Master’s degree in History and quickly began his career in local public archives. Since 2014, he has been the Head Archivist at Herentals City Archives, gradually transforming this old institution into a proactive, socially oriented institution. Through encountering both paradigmatic and practical challenges along the way, these experiences led to an invitation from the University of Antwerp in 2022 for doctoral research, from a critical heritage studies’ perspective, on the role and position of archives in society and the broader heritage arena. Since then, he has been balancing his roles as a researcher at the University of Antwerp and as a practitioner.