Crossroads Research Centre
Team
Director

Angela Schottenhammer
KU Leuven, Faculty of Arts, History DepartmentHistory of China’s and East Asia’s cross-cultural and commercial interactions, with a main focus on continental and maritime Silk Road history; trans-Pacific relations; East Asian science, technology and knowledge transfer; social and economic history of China and East Asia; tombs and tomb inscriptions; archaeology of Asia (especially tombs and shipwrecks)
Core Team

Cheng-Heng Lu 盧正恒
Academia Sinica, Institute of Taiwan History (Taiwan)Qing History, Taiwan History, Global History, Maritime History, Comparative Imperial History, Manchu Studies, Frontier Studies

Ignacio Chuecas Saldías
Institute of History, Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso (Chile)
Social history of the American imperial borders and peripheries, História das Inquisições at the Centro de Estudos de História Religiosa, Diaspora of the Portuguese nation in the lands of the Spanish King