257 Curriculum vitae Irene Jacobs studied Liberal Arts and Sciences at University College Roosevelt (part of Utrecht University), obtaining her Bachelor of Arts summa cum laude in 2013. At this international college she majored in art history and antiquity studies, while also taking courses in other fields such as religion studies and cultural anthropology. In 2015 she completed her Master of Arts with distinction at The Courtauld Institute of Art in London. Here she specialised in Byzantine art history. She conducted predoctoral research at the Royal Dutch Institute in Rome (KNIR) in 2016-2017, focussing on Byzantine churches in southern Italy. She spent a year learning ancient Greek as a contract student at KU Leuven (2017-2018) and during summer schools at Trinity College Dublin (2016 and 2017). This thesis is the result of her doctoral research at Radboud University between 2018 and 2023. During this period she took additional courses at Boğaziçi University and Dumbarton Oaks and she spent research stays at the Universität Wien and the KNIR. In addition to her academic research, Irene taught courses in ancient and medieval history at Radboud University, she was part of the organisation of the Radboud Studiedag Middeleeuwen, and she developed teaching materials in collaboration with a colleague and Stichting Zenobia. The course materials Patria Konstantinoupoleos: de stadsgeschiedenis van Constantinopel aim to introduce Byzantine history and medieval Greek language to secondary school pupils.
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