Dr. Inge Uytterhoeven studied Classical Philology (MA 1995) and Archaeology (MA 1998) at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven - Belgium. From 1998 to 2002 she was as a PhD student connected with the 'Historical Topography of the Fayum in the Graeco-Roman Period' Project under the direction of Prof. Dr. Willy Clarysse (Ancient History - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven - Belgium). In March 2003 she obtained her PhD degree with a dissertation dedicated to the Graeco-Roman village and necropolis of Hawara in the Egyptian Fayum (Hawara in the Graeco-Roman Period. Life and Death in a Fayum Village).

In 1997 she started participating with the excavations at Sagalassos. After having worked on the Upper Agora North and Bouleuterion sites in 1997, she has been supervising the excavations of the late antique urban mansion in the eastern domestic area of Sagalassos since 1998. Besides, in 2010 she was responsible for the excavations at the south-west corner of the Upper Agora, where the gate for Claudius and Germanicus gave entrance to the agora.

Between 2002 and 2010 she was as a Post-doctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation – Flanders connected to the Sagalassos Archaeological Research Project studying late antique (2003-2008), as well as Hellenistic and Roman urban housing (2008-2010) in Asia Minor and the rest of the Eastern Mediterranean. In 2008-2009 she carried out her research at the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut in Istanbul – Turkey.

Since September, 15 2010 she is continuing her research on urban housing and private architecture of Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor as a Senior Fellow of the Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations in Istanbul – Turkey.