Education

  • January 2019: PhD in Philosophy, summa cum laude, at the Faculty of Philosophy and Educational Sciences, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
    Thesis: Investigations into the logical foundations of defeasible reasoning: an Argumentative Perspective
    Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Christian Straßer and Prof. Dr. Ofer Arieli

  • 2013 - 2014: Master of Arts in Philosophy, summa cum laude, Ghent University
    Thesis: A Logical and Epistemological Study of the Early Calculus
    Supervisors: Dr. Albrecht Heeffer and Prof. Dr. Peter Verdée

  • 2010 - 2013: Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, magna cum laude, Ghent University
    2012 - 2013: Erasmus exchange at the University of Bologna, Italy

  • 2005-2010: Industrial Sciences, VTI Sint-Laurentius, Lokeren

Academic Employment

  • May 2022 - now: Assistant Professor in Computer Science at the Open Universiteit, the Netherlands.

  • January 2022 - April 2022: Post-doctoral research fellow at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium.

  • May 2021 - April 2022: Post-doctoral research fellow at the Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research, University of Cape Town (supervisors: Tommie Meyer and Deshen Moodley).

  • October 2019 - December 2021: Researcher in the project Conditional Argumentative Reasoning at the Technical University Dortmund (PIs: Matthias Thimm and Gabriele Kern-Isberner)

  • June 2019 - September 2019: Post-doctoral researcher in the project RIVER: Reasoning with Knowledge and Streams at the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (PIs: João Leite and Matthias Knorr)

  • January 2019 - May 2019: Post-doctoral researcher in the project An Argumentative Approach to Defeasible Reasoning: Towards a Unifying Base Theory at the Ruhr-University Bochum funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in the context of the Sofja Kovalevskaja award (PI: Christian Straßer)

  • January 2015 - December 2018: Doctoral researcher in the project An Argumentative Approach to Defeasible Reasoning: Towards a Unifying Base Theory at the Ruhr-University Bochum funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in the context of the Sofja Kovalevskaja award (PI: Christian Straßer)

  • Jaunary 2017 - April 2021: Research assistant of Ofer Arieli, funded by the Israel Science Foundation