Femke Lippok is an early medieval archaeologist focused on changing burial rituals and ritual economies in early medieval North Western Europe. She is currently employed by the Mero-Jewel project as an academic researcher at the Royal Museum of Art and History in Brussels (KMKG/MRAH). She is simultaneously finishing her PhD dissertation at Leiden University. Key publications: Lippok, F.E. (2020). The pyre and the grave: early medieval cremation burials in the Netherlands, the German Rhineland and Belgium, World Archaeology, 52:1, 147-162. Brandsen A. & Lippok F.E. (2021), A burning question: using an intelligent grey literature search engine to change our views on early medieval burial practices in the Netherlands, Journal of Archaeological Science 133: 105456.