The LOCO project studies mobility in the Low Countries over 7,000 years using an integrated, interdisciplinary approach. It treats the region as a key European crossroads for the movement of people, materials, and ideas.

Long-distance exchange networks existed since prehistory, with salt becoming a key driver from the Iron Age onward. Salt shaped settlement patterns, population dynamics, warfare, and agriculture, especially through coastal–inland interactions. Although salt itself does not preserve archaeologically, briquetage pottery, particularly salt containers, provides crucial evidence for salt production and trade networks in Iron Age and Roman Flanders.

The new Make-Up of the Cities project explores the diversity of the urban experience in the Low Countries, broadening the scope from three large cities (Ieper, Brugge, and Gent) and two smaller towns (Nieuwpoort and Poperinge). 

The DIMENSIE-project brings together researchers of the VUB and several partners (Ugent, BAAC and Roman Archaeological Museum Oudenburg), to study the cremations from several grave fields around Oudenburg (civitas Menapiorum), using a multi-proxy bioarchaeological approach. 

The LEAP project studies the impact of rapid and short climate changes on past societies and ecosystems in Belgium during the last 10 000 years using a transdisciplinary approach. With this project, we aim to understand how climate change affected the environment and populations in pre-complex and early-complex societies in the Meuse basin of Belgium. This will help to gain new knowledge on human resilience and address on-going and future regional climate changes.

LEAP is a BRAIN-be 2.0 project funded by BELSPO.

The Ebb and Flow project, based at the University of Oxford (PI – Rick Schulting), is funded by a Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grant. It addresses outstanding questions about human-river interaction in later prehistoric Britain by exploring rivers at multiple scales using a diverse suite of data, drawing on archaeology and biomolecular science, anthropology, and earth science. Christophe Snoeck is Co-I on this project and contributes to the palaeomobility aspects of this research. 

The jagWARS project, based at the University of Oxford (PI – Joanna Ostapkowicz), supported by a Gerda Henkel Stiftung Research Grant, brings together more than 100 surviving carvings from over 30 international museums in a study of their material, chronology and iconography. In providing an overview of the dispersed corpus, the project is in a position to place this little-known artistic heritage within its cultural and historic context for the first time. Christophe Snoeck is a partner on this project and carries out strontium isotope analyses of the different artefacts to identify their geographical origin.

The Make-up of the City is an interdisciplinary research project, funded by the VUB Strategic Research Fund, which combines chemistry, osteology, and archaeology to reconstruct the medieval history of the city of Ypres, Belgium. It brings together historians, archaeologists, geochemists and anatomists to better understand the lives and deaths of the inhabitants of Medieval Ypres.  

The SEXI International Joint Research Group brings together researchers from the VUB and the University of Ljubljana (UL). SEXI aims at developing and optimizing the study of archaeological sites across the world from their discovery to the state-of-the-art geochemical analyses of the animal and human remains excavated at the site.

Bringing together researchers from Brussels (both VUB and ULB) and Oxford (RLAHA), the BONE International Joint Research Group aims at improving our understanding of the diagenetic alterations of bioapatites from a wide range of different contexts.