The ROMAQ Team

Cees Passchier (left) and Gül Sürmelihindi (right)

Cees Passchier is the initiator and main Curator of the ROMAQ site and responsible for its content. Gül Sürmelihindi is responsible for expansion of the ROMAQ database behind the website.

Cees Passchier

is a structural geologist and geoarchaeologist at the University of Mainz, Germany, with an interest in engineering aspects of ancient water supply systems. He mainly works on carbonate deposits in Roman aqueducts to document ancient water management. Cees built the original database of ancient aqueducts of which ROMAQ is the public version.

Gül Sürmelihindi

is a geoarchaeology expert on the geochemistry of carbonate deposits in Roman aqueducts. She worked on aqueduct systems throughout the Mediterranean and created the online and open-access database “Watermachines”, which is hosted by the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. She mainly works on the socio-economic aspects of water management in antiquity, and curates the largest collection of anthropogenic carbonate in the world, hosted at Mainz University.

Former members who contributed to ROMAQ are Driek van Opstal and Wilke Schram.