Jonas Danckers obtained his PhD in Archaeology at the Universities of Leuven (Belgium) and Bologna (Italy). His doctoral thesis (214) discussed the origins of the terramare, the ditched and embanked settlements of the Central Po Plain (Northern Italy) during the 2nd millennium BC. In 215 Jonas organized a large conference in Rome on the use of the facies and culture concept in Italian Bronze Age studies.
Nowadays Jonas works for PARCUM, the Flemish Museum and Centre for Religious Heritage.