Devi Taelman is a postdoctoral researcher at the research group Interdisciplinary Historical Food Studies (FOST) at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. His research examines human–environment interactions (e.g., the impact of climate on ancient agriculture), and material economies (marble provenance) in the Roman Mediterranean through an interdisciplinary lens (landscape archaeology, archaeometry, and material culture studies). He holds a PhD in Roman Archaeology from Ghent University, where he studied the supply chains and economic mechanisms of building stone in ancient Roman cities. He also has extensive experience in archaeological survey, geoarchaeology, and computational approaches to the study of the ancient world.
