research

I am the postdoctoral assistant of Dutch Linguistics at KU Leuven Brussels. My research focuses on language variation in media language, which I study from a cognitive sociolinguistic perspective. I am particularly interested in how quantitative and computational methods can be used to analyse the development and evolution of figurative language in the media.

In addition, I teach courses on Dutch language proficiency in the Master of Journalism Studies and the Master of Multilingual Communication: Cross‑Cultural Communication Management at KU Leuven Brussels.

I obtained my PhD in 2017 at KU Leuven and Radboud University Nijmegen. During my doctoral research, I investigated the structure of lexical variation in the dialects of Dutch.

Since then, I have gained several years of postdoctoral experience. I have held positions at the Institute for the Dutch Language (Leiden), the Free University of Brussels (VUB), and the University of Toronto (Canada). I was also involved in the Nephological Semantics project at KU Leuven, which applied computational methods from distributional semantics to the study of lexical variation and change.

Finally, I held a postdoctoral fellowship from the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), in which I investigated the speed of lexical change in Dutch using quantitative and computational techniques.

You can view the latest version of my CV here (16 March 2026).