FWO Grant awarded to Stef Espeel

On 24 May 2023, Posthumus alumnus and fellow Stef Espeel was awarded a FWO Research Grant for junior postdoc researchers. Stef Espeel, having obtained his PhD from the University of Antwerp in 2021 with a dissertation entitled “Prices and Crises. The Grain Economy in Fourteenth-Century Flanders”, currently works as a postdoctoral senior researcher with the Department of History of the University of Antwerp. His research focus lies with the topic of plague in the late Middle Ages at the University of Antwerp.

With the FWO fellowships, the FWO wants to support researchers in developing an independent, international research career. They will receive funding for three years.

The Posthumus staff congratulates Stef with his grant.