Educational experience

Teaching support

2018 - 2024: Co-teacher - PsychoPy (Python) programming course:
Guidance of (bachelor) students during class exercises; Developing and grading tests.

2024-2025:Blog on the AI tool of the week for teachers.

2024: Science bars: educating high school students on AI.

2025: Setting up a curriculum on digital skills and data-analyses in health care.

Applied Research Experience

2024 - Current: AI Researcher.
Cyber3Lab & AI Lab
Howest University of Applied Sciences - Belgium.

Research Projects

Power Up Wellbeing (PUW!) project

AI in digital health project

You can find more information on the Applied projects page.

Academic Research Experience

Academic Positions

2023 - 2024: Post-doctoral researcher.
BraemLab
Department of experimental psychology
Ghent University - Belgium.

2022 - 2024: Post-doc on balancing shared versus separated representations for continual learning.
Cognitive Computational Neuroscience group
Department of experimental psychology
Ghent University - Belgium.

2017 - 2022: PhD - Learning to synchronize: Computational and EEG investigations of human flexibility
Cognitive Computational Neuroscience group
Department of experimental psychology
Ghent University - Belgium.

2016 - 2017: Research internship (6 months) - Social cognition
BrassLab
Department of experimental psychology
Ghent University - Belgium.
(under supervision of Oliver Genschow).

Education

2017 - 2022: PhD - Learning to synchronize: Computational and EEG investigations of human flexibility
Cognitive Computational Neuroscience group
Department of experimental psychology
Ghent University - Belgium.

2015 - 2017: Master of Science - Theoretical and experimental psychology (magna cum laude):
Ghent University - Belgium.

2012 - 2015: Bachelor of Science - Theoretical and experimental psychology (cum fructu):
Ghent University - Belgium.

Review and Editor roles

2023 - 2024: Review-editor for the cognition section of Frontiers in Psychology

Reviewed a wide range of (17) papers for journals:
Cerebral Cortex; Cognition; Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience; Computers Materials and Continua;
Frontiers in Psychology; Human Brain Mapping; Nature Communications; NeuroImage; Neuroscience;
Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews and Scientific Reports.

Extra activities

2018 - 2024: Co-teacher - PsychoPy (Python) programming course:
Guidance of (bachelor) students during class exercises; Developing and grading tests.

2018 - 2024: Supervision of a wide range of students (BSc, MSc and PhD) on several research projects.

2020- 2021: Member of departmental EEG committee:
Advice new EEG studies; Contact person for EEG lab.

Programming

Good proficiency: MATLAB, Python, R, JavaScript

Beginner: HTML, shell scripting, C++