Monographs:

• Companions in Geography: East-West Collaboration in the Mapping of Qing China (c.1685–1735). Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2017. [read here]

Edited volumes:

• Remapping the World in East Asia: Toward a Global History of the Ricci Maps. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press (in press for 2022–23). With Elke Papelitzky.
• Mapping Asia: Cartographic Encounters Between East and West. Heidelberg/Amsterdam/New York: Springer (2019). With Martijn Storms, Ferjan Ormeling, & Imre Demhardt. [read here]

Journal articles:

• The Confusions of Space: Reading Ming China’s Comprehensive Geographies. Monumenta Serica 69:2 (2021), 515–547. [read here]
• Reimagining Qing Space: Yongzheng’s Eurasian Atlas (1727–29). Late Imperial China 42:1 (2021), 93–129. [read here]
• Displacing China: The Martini-Blaeu Novus Atlas Sinensis and the Late Renaissance Shift in Representations of East Asia. Renaissance Quarterly 73:3 (2020), 953–990. [read here]
• De Novus Atlas Sinensis (1655) van Martini en Blaeu en zijn Chinese bronnen. Caert Thresoor 38:4 (2019), 3–17 [in Dutch].
• Blurring the Boundaries: Integrating Techniques of Land Surveying on the Qing’s Mongolian Frontier. East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine 46 (2018), 25–46. [read here]
• Displacing Jesuit Science in Qing China. East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine 46 (2018), 15–23. Co-authored with Wu Huiyi & Alexander Statman. [read here]
• Converging Interests and Scientific Circulation between Paris and Beijing (1685–1735): The Path Towards a New Qing Cartographic Practice. Revue d’histoire des sciences 70:1 (2017), 47–78. [read here]
• Not Just a Jesuit Atlas of China: Qing Imperial Cartography and Its European Connections. Imago Mundi 69:2 (2017), 188–201. [read here]
• Guest Editor’s Introduction: Recent Additions to the New Qing History Debate. Contemporary Chinese Thought 47:1 (2016), 1–4. [read here]
• Restituting Church Buildings and Negotiating Church Factions: Missionary Mapmakers and the Making of Local Networks (1712–1716). Frontiers of History in China 4:9 (2014), 489–505. [read here]
• The discovery of Chinese Rites Controversy documents in a branch of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Sino-Western Cultural Relations Journal 35 (2013), 48–56.
• The China Maps of Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d’Anville: Origins and Supporting Networks. Imago Mundi 66:1 (2013), 51–69. [read here]
• ‘Companions in Geography’: The Sino-European Effort to Measure China, c.1685–1735. Imago Mundi, 66:1 (2013), 143–144.
• The Early Qing Geographical Surveys (1708–1716) as a Case of Collaboration between the Jesuits and the Kangxi Court. Sino-Western Cultural Relations Journal 34 (2012), 1–20.

Book chapters:

• Circling the Square: Encompassing Global Geography on Large Commercial Maps. In: Cams, Mario & Elke Papelitzky (eds.), Remapping the World in East Asia: Toward a Global History of the Ricci Maps, Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press (in press for 2022–23)
• Taking China’s Measure: Eighteenth-Century Empire and the Mapping of Eurasia. In: Caboara, Marco (ed.), Regnum Chinae: The Printed Western Maps of China to 1735, Leiden: Brill (in press for 2022).
• Les missions jésuites en Extrême-Orient et les échanges de connaissances cartographiques (XVIIe–XVIIIe siècles). In: Le monde en sphères, Paris: BnF Éditions, 2019, 160–166 [in French].
• The printed life of the ‘Huangyu quanlan tu’ 皇輿全覽圖. In: Saraiva, Luís & Catherine Jami (eds.). History of Mathematical Sciences – Portugal and East Asia: Visual and Textual Representations in Exchanges Between Europe and East Asia 16th–18th Centuries, Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, 2018, 245–266.
• Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d’Anville and the ‘Nouvel atlas de la Chine’. In: O’Malley J., Ribeiro R. (eds.), Jesuit Mapmaking in China: D’Anville’s “Nouvelle [sic] Atlas de la Chine” (1737), (Early Modern Catholicism and the Visual Arts Series 11), Philadelphia: St. Joseph’s University Press, 2014, 37–50.
• The Early Qing Geographical Surveys (1708–1718) as seen through the ‘Folded Memorials with Vermillion Endorsement of the Kangxi Reign’. In: Globalization and Glocalization in China, Leiden: Shilin, 2012, 203–250.

Guest-edited journals:

• East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine 46 (2018). With Wu Huiyi & Alexander Statman.
• Recent Additions to the New Qing History Debate. Contemporary Chinese Thought 47:1 (2016).

Book reviews:

• Global Entanglements of a Man Who Never Traveled: A Seventeenth-Century Chinese Christian and His Conflicted Worlds (Dominic Sachsenmaier). Ming Studies 79 (2019), 80–82.
• Rooted in Hope: China—Religion—Christianity/In der Hoffnung verwurzelt (Barbara Hoster, Dirk Kuhlmann, and Zbigniew Wesolowski, eds.). China Review International 23:4 (2018): 371–375.

Popular publications and online contributions:

• Online Exhibit: Mapping Asia for Museum Volkenkunde [in Dutch and English]
• At the Borders of Qing Imperial Cartography, In: China Connections: The Newsletter of the International Institute for Asian Studies 84 (2019).
• The Malcolm Young Lecture 2019: The Martini-Blaeu Novus Atlas Sinensis, In: IMCOS Journal 158 (2019).
• Three times Nurhaci, In: Debtelin 2 (2018), 126–131.
• De Kangxi-kaart, In: Debtelin 1 (2016). [in Dutch]
• De barsten in onze bubbel, In: De Standaard (2015). [in Dutch]
• Kangxi-Verbiest hemelglobe, In: Uit het Erasmushuis 4 (2014), 132–135. [in Dutch]
• Het ongelukkige geschenk van Angela Merkel aan Xi Jinping, In: Knack Online (2014) [in Dutch]
• Who were the Manchu Mapmakers?, In: Manchu Studies Group Online (2014).
• De kaart van Merkel, In: KU Leuven blogt (2014) [in Dutch]
• Ancient maps that cause a stir in modern politics: d’Anville’s map of China, In: The Brussels Map Circle Newsletter 50 (2014).
• The Journey of a Manchu Map, In: Manchu Studies Group Online (2013).
• Manchu as a Tool Language for European Missionaries, In: Manchu Studies Group Online (2013).

Western Civilizations? Questioning a Sweeping Course Title Through the Lives of Objects and its student projects:

• 2020–2021: [Napoleon’s Box]   [Vietnam War Zippo]   [French Wig Holder]
• 2021–2022: [Lily of France Thong]   [Pandora’s Snuffbox]   [WWI Shell Case Jug]

Academic Degrees

• Ph.D. (Maxima cum laude), KU Leuven, 2015
• M.A. (Magna cum laude), KU Leuven, 2010
• B.A. (Cum laude), KU Leuven, 2009

Fellowships

• Harvard University, 2013 (Research Foundation Flanders Outward Mobility Grant)
• China Southwest University, 2006–2007 (Chinese Government Scholarship Scheme)

Academic Prizes

• 2021–2022 Best Teacher Award (Faculty of Arts & Humanities, University of Macau)
• 2019 Imago Mundi Prize (International Journal for the History of Cartography)
• 2017–2018 Emerging Scholar Award (Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Macau)
• 2017 DHST Prize for Young Scholars (International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology)

Selected Grants and Scholarships

• 2021–2023 UM Multi-Year Research Grant: Ming-Qing Cartography and Geography in the Global History of Science
• 2020–2021 Macau Higher Education Bureau Subsidy Scheme for the Humanities and Social Sciences: QingMaps 2.0 Phase II
• 2019 Macau Higher Education Bureau Subsidy Scheme for the Humanities and Social Sciences: QingMaps 2.0 Phase I
• 2017–2020 UM Multi-Year Research Grant: Qing Imperial Cartography 
• 2016–2018 UM Startup Research Grant: Companions in Geography

• Association for Asian Studies
• European Association of Chinese Studies
• International Society for the History of East Asian Science, Technology and Medicine
• International Society for the History of the Map
• KU Leuven SinAlumni
• LG Working Group at the Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftgeschichte