Jasper de Bruin studied Roman Archaeology at the University of Amsterdam. After graduating, he worked as an archaeologist, lecturer and researcher at Leiden University for almost fifteen years. During that time, he completed his PhD on the Cananefates, a rural community along the Lower German Frontier of the Roman Empire. Since 2019, he has been curator of the Dutch Roman Collections at the National Museum of Antiquities. Here, De Bruin focuses broadly on the material culture and archaeological theory of the Roman period in Northwestern Europe.