Tomas Vanheste (Belgium) is a journalist. He writes reports, interviews and investigative stories for numerous Flemish and Dutch media. He is also deputy editor-in-chief of Ons Erfdeel/De Lage Landen. There, as Nederbelg, he examines the cultural and social links and tensions between the Netherlands and Flanders.
Tomas is a mixture of Belgian, Dutch and European. He was born in Ostend (1968), grew up in Nijmegen and studied Philosophy of Science, Technology and Society combined with Applied Mathematics in Enschede. It was also in Twente that he obtained his doctorate, with a dissertation entitled Copernicus is ziek (1996), in which, according to the NRC Handelsblad, he "shrewdly" questioned the scientific pretensions of New Age thinkers.
He worked as a editor at the publisher De Bezige Bij and as a researcher at the administrative information department of the city of Utrecht before embarking on a career in journalism. This began in 2004 at the opinion weekly Vrij Nederland. In 2013, he embarked on the adventure of the digital platform De Correspondent, where he was Europe's correspondent between power and imagination.
Since the beginning of 2020, he has been working as an independent journalist for the one-man company 'The silent pen'. On his blog of the same name, he ventures into personal reviews and reflections. After more than a decade of cordial freelance collaboration with Ons Erfdeel/De Lage Landen, he joined the staff there on a half-time basis on 1 September 2022.
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