Christine van der Pijl-Ketel holds a BA in Japanese from the University of Leiden and a MA in Art History and Archeology of East Asia form the University of Amsterdam.At the moment she is an independent scholar, who undertakes research on Chinese export porcelain for the Dutch market. In the past years she has been researching the export porcelain bound for Portugal and the Netherlands at the beginning of the 17th century, and in 2003 worked on a project, based in Galle in Sri Lanka, documenting the ceramics found in the VOC ship the Avondster. Christine published articles on the subject of ceramics and gives many lectures.
Christine is connected to the Centre for International Heritage Activities as a free lance advice-consultant. She is also involved in setting up the documentation and archive area of the CIE. This will be part of the research department of the CIE and become an important part of the website.
