Thomas Coomans is a Professor of the Department of Architecture at University of Louvain. He is mainly engaged in architecture history, heritage protection and architecture archaeology. He is specialized in Medieval Gothic architecture. He has served as an Associate Professor of School of Architecture at CUHK, a researcher of International Institute of Social Studies, an Associate Professor of UniversitéLibre de Bruxelles, a Postdoctoral Fellow of Leiden University, and a Senior Researcher of Université du Québec à Montréal.