Devi Taelman (°1985) received the degree of ‘Master in Archaeology’ at Ghent University in 2007. During this period, he has specialised in Roman urbanism in Lusitania at the University of Coimbra (Portugal). Since 2008, he has been working at the Department of Archaeology of Ghent University. In 2012, he finished his PhD entitled 'The provenance, supply and use of stone material at the Roman town of Ammaia' (promotor: Prof Dr Frank Vermeulen). His PhD research studied the stone economy and architecture of the Roman town of Ammaia (Portugal). Special attention was given to the architectural history of the town, the provenance and supply of building stones and ornamental stones, and the quarrying organisation and techniques. Currently, the work of Devi Taelman focuses on the provenance, the use and the economy of marbles and other ornamental stones in the Roman period in the regions of Central-Adriatic Italy and the Bay of Naples (Pompeii, Herculaneum, Oplontis en Stabiae).
The main interest of Devi Taelman include landscape archaeology, the application of geoarchaeological methods in archaeology, archaeometry, GIS, and archaeological computing. These methods are applied for the study of the economy and industry of ornamental stones (marble, granite, etc.) used in Antiquity.