Studie(s) en diploma's

PhD in Archeologie

Huidige functieomschrijving

Archeoloog en wetenschappelijk onderzoeker.
Assistant Professor VU Amsterdam
Visiting Professor aan Helsinki University

Ervaring

PhD Onderzoeker aan KU Leuven (2014-2018)
Koç University (Antalya, Turkey) (2018-2019)
Postdoctoraal onderzoeker aan KU Leuven (2019-2020)
Assistant Professor aan Middle East Technical University (Ankara, Turkey) (2021-2023)

Specialisatie onderzoek in oostelijk Mediterrane zeegebied en Nabije Oosten
Onderzoeksthema's: digitale archeolgie, interdisciplinariteit, sociale complexiteit, urbanisatie, antieke economie, mens-omgevings interacties
Jarenlange ervaring met veldwerk in Turkije en Jordanië.

Relevante Publicaties

Daems, D., E. Coco, A. Gillreath-Brown, D. Kafetzaki (2023) The Effects of Time-Averaging on Archaeological Networks. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory.
Boogers, S. and Daems, D. (2022) SAGAscape: Simulating Resource Exploitation Strategies in Iron Age to Hellenistic Communities in Southwest Anatolia. Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology, 5(1), pp.169–187. http://doi.org/10.5334/jcaa.90
Daems, D. and Talloen, P. (2022) Moving in Together? Synoikismos and Polis Formation at Sagalassos and in Southwest Anatolia. Bulletin of the American Society of Overseas Research 387: pp.181–205. https://doi.org/10.1086/719184.
Cleymans, S., Daems, D., Vandam, R. (2022) Een Veranderend Klimaat in de Archeologie. Karakter 80.
Daems, D. (2021) Social Complexity and Complexity Economics. Studying Socio-Economic Systems at Düzen Tepe and Sagalassos (SW Turkey). In: K. Verboven (Ed.) Complexity Economics: Building a New Approach to Ancient Economic History. Palgrave Studies in Ancient Economies, pp. 163-201. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47898-8_6.
Daems, D., Vandam, R., Cleymans, S., Broothaerts, N., Boogers, B., Matsuo, H., Mirhanoğlu, A. (2021) The social metabolism of past societies. A new approach to environmental changes and societal responses in the territory of Sagalassos (SW Turkey). In: Erdkamp, P., Verboven, K. and Manning, J. (eds.) Climate Change and Ancient Societies in Europe and the Near East: Diversity in Collapse and Resilience. Palgrave Studies in Ancient Economies. Palgrave. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81103-7_20.
Daems, D. and S. Boogers (2021) Simulating Resource Exploitation Strategies in Iron Age to Hellenistic Communities in Southwest Anatolia. Metalla Sonderheft 10: pp. 93-97.
Daems, D. (2020) A Review and Roadmap of Online Learning Platforms and Tutorials in Digital Archaeology. Advances in Archaeological Practice 8(1): pp. 87–92. https://doi.org/10.1017/aap.2019.47.
Daems, D. (2019) Building communities. Presenting a model of community formation and organizational complexity in southwestern Anatolia. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 56, 101110. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2019.101110
Kiekens, A., Rongé, J., Van Eynde, S., Cleymans, S., Daems, D., De Ridder, B., Despeghel, J., Moonen, P., Ovaere, M. and Smeets, N. (2019) How to move towards a common understanding of progress? A transdisciplinary exercise involving 10 young researchers. Transdisciplinary Insights. Leuven.

Relevante onderzoeken

2022-2025 The urban-rural systems of Late Hellenistic to Roman Imperial Sagalassos and present-day Ağlasun. Sustainability of urbanization in times of accelerated growth at KU Leuven
2020-2024 Network for Agent-based modelling of Social-ecological systems in Archaeology (NASSA) from Research Foundation Flanders (https://archaeology-abm.github.io/NASSA-hub/about-us.html)
2020 Modelling and Simulation in Archaeology. Microproject Innovative Digital Learning at KU Leuven
2019-2020 Let’s Work Together: Modelling the emergence of social cooperation and complexity formation from Universitas 21
2017-2019 Sustainability and Resilience in Past & Present Populations from Academic Foundation Leuven

Mijn media ervaring

Schrijven voor breed publiek:
Cleymans, S., Daems, D. en Vandam, R. (2022) Een Veranderend Klimaat in de Archeologie. Karakter. Tijdschrijft van Wetenschap 80.
Daems, D. (2021) Rethinking Connectedness from Past to Future Maja. Magazine of the Young Academy: Pandemic Edition, pp. 20-24.

Finalist Falling Walls Lab Leuven. Titel: Breaking the walls of past, present and future complexity.