Fabrice Maerten (°1962) studied history at the UCL (catholic university of Louvain-la-Neuve). In 1996, he defended his doctoral thesis on political and ideological resistance in the province of the Hainaut during the Second World War. He was junior researcher at the National Foundation for Scientific Research from 1985 to 1989 and assistant at the UCL and the Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis from 1989 to 1995. He has worked at Cegesoma since 1995. From 1996 to 2010, he has been the francophone secretary of the editorial board of the Cahiers d'histoire du temps présent/Bijdragen tot de Eigentijdse Geschiedenis. From 2005 to 2016 he was substitute director and in charge of communication (website and Bulletin). Since 1 January 2011, he is also head of the Documentation sector His field of research comprises the resistance and Catholicism in Belgium during the Second World War. From January to April 2017 he was Head ad interim Fourth Operational Directorate CegeSoma.

Book review of Marie-Pierre d'Udekem d'Acoz, Andrée De Jongh. une vie de résistante, Bruxelles, 2016 and Philippe Le Blanc, Comète. Le réseau derrière la ligne (De la création en 1940 à février 1943), in Revue belge d'histoire contemporaine, XLVI, 2016 n°3-4, p. 317-321. "Conclusion", in Robert Vandenbussche (ed.), L'épuration en Belgique et dans la zone interdite (1944-1949). Actes de la journée d'études, Bondues (1er février 2014) (Institut de Recherches historiques du Septentrion, n°55), Lille, 2016, p. 273-278. "Préface", in Jean-Claude Maréchal, Un agent parachutiste dans l'Histoire, Louvain-la-Neuve, 2016, p. 5-7. "Parcours de résistant. De l'arrestation à la déportation", text of a lecture during the studyday "Découverte et appropriation du fort de Breendonk" organised on 16 March 2016 by "Démocratie ou Barbarie", 15 p., available here. "Conclusion", in Amandine Dumont et a. (ed.), Mons dans la tourmente. Justice et société à l'épreuve des guerres mondiales (1914-1961), Louvain-la-Neuve, 2016, p. 221-226.