Prof. Dr. Cato Peersman (b. 1987, Aalst) is a Belgian historical linguist and epigrapher specializing in Continental Celtic and contact phenomena in northern Gaul. She earned a PhD in 2016 with a dissertation on cursive hands in early provincial contexts and has since led surveys of rural inscriptions across East Flanders and Hainaut. Based in Ghent, she lectures on historical linguistics, field methods, and epigraphic documentation, and coordinates a small imaging lab focused on multispectral capture and RTI. Her work often bridges archaeology and linguistics, with a particular interest in how minor records—ostraca, graffito tallies, and stamped sherds—reshape regional language histories.
