Bruno Blondé (°1964) is a Full Professor of the History Department at the University of Antwerp (Centre for Urban History and Urban Studies Institute). From 2003 to 2010 Bruno Blondé was the founder and first Director of the Centre for Urban History. He also is engaged in Aipril (the Antwerp Interdisciplinary Platform for Research into Inequality). - His major research interests include the history of economic growth and social inequality, urbanisation, material culture and consumption of the early modern Low Countries.