Vincent Oeters is the acquisitions editor for archaeology and material cultures of ancient civilizations at the international academic publisher De Gruyter Brill. He studied Egyptology, archaeology, and Arabic at Leiden University in the Netherlands and is working on his PhD dissertation on the history of Belgian Egyptology—particularly during the first half of the 20th century—at KU Leuven and Ghent University in Belgium.

Vincent has extensive fieldwork experience in Egypt at sites including Saqqara, Gebelein, and Abydos. From 2017 to 2025, he was chairman of the Friends of Saqqara foundation, a Dutch non-profit organization that provided financial support for archaeological research, documentation, and preservation at the Saqqara necropolis in Egypt. He has published about a Ramesside grave uncovered at Saqqara during a joint expedition by the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden and Leiden University in 2009.

From an early age, Vincent regularly visited the Egyptian collection in Leiden and began to learn to read ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. He now teaches others how to read them and leads tours to Egypt. He has been travelling to Egypt for 20 years and remains fascinated by its ancient and modern cultures. He looks forward to sharing his passion for Egypt with Smithsonian travelers.