Wouter Ronsijn (°1982) is currently working as postdoctoral researcher on the EPIBEL-project, on the history of epidemics and inequalities in Belgium. Previously, he worked at the Bocconi University in Milan, in the Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics and Public Policy. He has done research on social inequality and commodity markets, and focuses on rural history. In 2014, he published Commerce and the countryside: The rural population's involvement in the commodity market in Flanders, 1750-1910 and co-edited CORN 17: Stocks, seasons and sales : food supply, storage and markets in Europe and the New World, c. 1600-2000, which appeared in 2019.