Dries Tys currently works at the Art Sciences and Archaeology (SKAR), Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Dries does research in Landscape history, early-medieval archaeology and the archaeology of connectivity. His current main project is the Belspo Excellence of Science project "Crumbel: Cremations, Urns and Mobility - Ancient Population Dynamics in Belgium". This project is an interdisciplinary collaboration between natural scientists of VUB, ULB, UGent, and KIK/IRPA, where cremation burials from between the Neolithic and the Early Middle Ages will be studied from a mutual bioarchaeological (isotope studies and osteoarchaeology) perspective and a cultural perspective (burial rites).