Since April 2018, Jeroen ter Brugge has been working as a curator in the History Department of the Rijksmuseum and is responsible for the maritime collections. He studied (prehistoric) archaeology at Leiden University. He worked as an archaeologist at the Dutch Heritage Agency, was director of the National Fisheries Museum and head of collections and curator of the academic program at the Maritime Museum Rotterdam. He specializes in maritime archaeology and history, i.e. shipwrecks, shipbuilding, and flags. His PhD thesis focuses on the Dutch shipbuilding industry between 1870 and 1914.