Notes on Contributors
Loïc Charles
is full professor at University of Paris 8 (Vincennes Saint-Denis) and associate researcher at INED. His research focuses on French economic history and economic thought in the eighteenth century.
Ana Crespo Solana
is tenured scientist at Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC, Spain). She specializes in global maritime history with a focus on historical GIS, Flemish and Dutch merchant communities. She authored eight books and over 60 papers.
Guillaume Daudin
is full professor in economics at the University of Paris-Dauphine (LeDA-DIAL). He works on the early modern economic history of France and trade globalization. From 2014 to 2017, he co-directed an extensive project on eighteenth-century French trade statistics.
Maarten Draper
is a PhD student at the European University Institute in Florence. He wrote his MA-thesis at the University of Groningen in the framework of the STRO project. His current research focuses on Italian merchants in seventeenth-century Amsterdam.
Jerem van Duijl
obtained his MA at the University of Groningen with a thesis based on STRO. His current PhD research at Leiden University deals with the medieval possessions of the Teutonic Order in the bailiwick of Utrecht.
Jari Eloranta
is Professor of Economic History at the University of Helsinki and Docent at the University of Jyväskylä. He has published widely on the history of public spending, conflicts, and Nordic economic history.
Katerina Galani
Ph.D. (2011) Oxford University, is Post-Doctoral Fellow in Economic History at the Institute of Mediterranean Research/FORTH, Greece. She has specialised in Mediterranean maritime history and banking in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Lauri Karvonen
is a master’s student in history at the University of Jyväskylä. His research interests are on early modern trade and trade statistics. He has published on these topics in jointly written articles.
Yuta Kikuchi
is associate professor at the College of Economics of the Rikkyo University (Tokyo). His research focuses on Hamburg’s trade in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries with special consideration of its hinterland markets and networks.
Sven Lilja
is Professor emeritus of history at the University of Stockholm. His main fields of research are Swedish and Baltic urban and environmental history in the early modern period.
Maria Cristina Moreira
is an assistant professor at the Department of Economics, School of Economics and Management of the University of Minho, Braga, Portugal. She has published several articles on 18th and 19th century development of states and foreign trade.
Jari Ojala
is professor of comparative business history at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. He has published widely on topics related to maritime history. Currently he coordinates a major research project to study Finnish early modern growth (c. 1500–1860).
Pierrick Pourchasse
is Professor at the University of Western Brittany in Brest, France. He researches eighteenth-century economic relations between France and Northern Europe. He authored Le commerce du Nord. Les échanges entre la France et l’Europe septentrionale au XVIIIe siècle.
Magnus Ressel
is assistant professor at the Chair of Early Modern History, University of Frankfurt/Main. He has published mostly on maritime history, German-Italian trade relations, migration, the history of slavery and intercultural relations in the premodern era.
Klas Rönnbäck
is associate professor in economic history at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He studies issues related to development and early modern globalization. Previous research focused on the impact of technological improvements on the speed of transatlantic shipping.
Werner Scheltjens
Ph.D. (2009), is assistant professor at the University of Leipzig. He has published on preindustrial maritime history, including Dutch Deltas. Emergence, functions and structure of the Low Countries maritime transport system ca. 1300–1850 (Leiden / Boston, 2015).
Siem van der Woude
studied history at the University of Groningen. He works at the Frisian historical archives (Ryksargyf, since 2002 Tresoar) and is one of the initiators of Sound Toll Registers Online.
Jan Willem Veluwenkamp
Ph.D. (1981), was associate professor of early modern history at the University of Groningen until he retired in 2017. He has published on commercial history, including Archangel. Nederlandse ondernemers in Rusland, 1550–1785 (Amsterdam, 2000).