David Duindam is associate professor of Colonial Heritage and the Shoah in the Netherlands at the University of Amsterdam. His research interests are: cultural memory; critical heritage; urban space; materiality; critical infrastructure. Together with dr. Rixt Woudstra he runs the research project “Concrete Colonialism: Architecture and Heritage in Indonesia around Independence” (2024-2030) that examines the local and transregional networks of fabrication, distribution and usage of concrete before and after Indonesia’s independence. His monograph Fragments of the Holocaust (AUP: 2019) investigates the postwar history of the Hollandsche Schouwburg in Amsterdam, a former theater and deportation center from where more than 46.000 Jews were deported and currently houses the National Holocaust Museum. He coordinated the European research network “Digital Memory of the Shoah,” and organized the international conference “Materialities of Postcolonial Memory.” Furthermore, he is board member of the Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture (UvA), coordinates the BA programme Literary and Cultural Analysis at the Faculty of Humanities (UvA) and is member of the editorial board of the Amsterdam Museum Journal.