Julie De Groot is guest professor and postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Urban History and member of Antwerp Cultural Heritage Sciences (ARCHES) at the University of Antwerp. She is trained as an historian and is specialised in material culture studies, interior design history and crafts culture. She’s co-supervisor of the FWO-funded project Painted Interiors and coordinator of the Horizon Europe project Tracks4Crafts that has the ambition to examine and transform the transmission of traditional crafts knowledge  (TCK) to enhance the societal and economic valuation of crafts and align them with a future-oriented heritage approach in Europe.