Winfred van de Put held the position of director of the Netherlands Institute at Athens from 2014 to 2022. He is a specialist in Attic and Apulian vase-painting, having studied at the University of Amsterdam in the eighties with Professors Hemelrijk and Brijder. He defended his PhD on the development of the iconography on lekythoi at Ghent University in 2012 and taught archaeology at the Universities of Amsterdam, Ghent and Nijmegen (Radboud) from 2005 to 2013. In 2013-2014 he briefly held a position of curator at the Allard Pierson Museum, for which he wrote two fascicles of the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum (3 and 4, comprising all the lekythoi of the museum). He participated in field-work in Lakonia, Carthage, Sozopol (Apollonia Pontica), Boeotia, Thorikos and Halos, mostly involved in finds processing. He is member of the editorial board of Pharos.