After getting her master’s degree in Art History in 2004 (University Ghent), Elizabeth worked for seven years in the exhibitions department of the Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels (BOZAR), where she was responsible for all publications of the exhibitions, such as Het Verboden Rijk (2007) and The World of Lucas Cranach (2010).
In 2012, she started as an assistant at UGent, Department Art, Theatre and Music Sciences, while working independently for cultural institutions such as the Centrum Rubenianum and the Centre for Fine Arts. As a part time assistant to Prof. dr. Martens and Prof. dr. Jonckheere, she further developed her knowledge on the arts in the Netherlands, in particular in the 16th and 17th century.
Since September 2015, she was enrolled as a PhD candidate and assistant, with a joint PhD with the University of Verona. By means of an interdisciplinary investigation between culinary history and the visual arts during mainly the 16th and 17th century in the Netherlands, she questions the intrinsic art historical meaning of these culinary motives. In her comparative study between direct sources (contemporary cook books, medicine books and taste theories) and art works, she hypothizes that these depictions touch upon multi-layered ideas and thus become theories of visuality and of representation. She completed her phd in March 2025.
Since 2023, she is working freelance on a fulltime basis as an editor for De Witte Raaf, but also as a project manager and ghost writer for art books. She also works parttime as a project manager for the ERC project Artdetect, under the guidance of Prof. dr. Anna Tummers within the European Research Council project ARTDETECT: A New Connoisseurship: Smart Ways to Detect Forgeries (ERC Consolidator Grant 101088056, 2024-2028). With her experience as a doctoral student at UGent, she is not only skilled in academic research, but she also knows how Ghent University works. She is responsible for managing ARTDETECT, i.e. continuous reporting for the ERC, daily follow-up and managing al the practicalities that come with the project: from tenders, to follow-up of front office work, scheduling meetings, and assisting both the PI, and theresearchers in their projects.
