2025-Present: Staff Scientist @ Evolutionary Genomics Unit (EGU), Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST; Okinawa, Japan)
2019-Present: Scientific Collaborator of the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) @ Evolutionary Biology & Ecology lab (EBE; ULB, Brussels, Belgium) (non-employment affiliation)
(2023-2029): Postdoctoral Researcher (Chargé de recherches, CR) of the Fund for Scientific Research (F.R.S.-FNRS; Call 2023) @ Evolutionary Biology & Ecology lab (EBE; ULB, Brussels, Belgium) (currently suspended)
2021-2025: Postdoctoral Scholar @ Evolutionary Genomics Unit (EGU), Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST; Okinawa, Japan)
2019-2021: Postdoctoral Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS; Call 2019) @ Evolutionary Genomics Unit (EGU), Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST; Okinawa, Japan)
2015-2019: Research Fellow of the Fund for Scientific Research (F.R.S.-FNRS; Call 2015) @ Evolutionary Biology & Ecology lab (EBE; ULB, Brussels, Belgium)
2019: Doctor of Science. Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
Doctoral thesis: Hellemans, S. 2019. Ecology and reproduction of neotropical soil-feeding termites from the Termes group. Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Biology of Organisms, Faculty of Sciences, Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium. 246pp.
2015: M.Sc. in Biology of Organisms and Ecology. Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
Master thesis: Hellemans, S. 2015. Stratégies reproductives et sex-ratio chez le termite Cavitermes tuberosus (Emerson, 1925). M.Sc. Thesis, Department of Biology of Organisms, Faculty of Sciences, Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium. 52pp.
2013: B.Sc. in Biological Sciences. Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
(2023-2029): Postdoctoral Researcher (Chargé de recherches, CR) of the Fund for Scientific Research (F.R.S.-FNRS; Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique, Belgium) (FNRS call 2023)
2019-2021: FY2019 JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship for Research in Japan (JSPS; Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences, Japan) (JSPS call 2019)
2015-2019: Research Fellow (Aspirant) Fellowship FNRS (F.R.S.-FNRS; Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique, Belgium) (FNRS call 2015)
2021: Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society (RES)
2016: Adrien Bauchau Award (Promotions 2014-2015). Best master thesis in the field of Biology of Organisms and Ecology of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation. Awarded by the Department of Biology of UNamur, Belgium.
2015: Jacques Kets Award (Promotion 2015). Best master thesis of Zoology in Belgium. Awarded by the Société Royale de Zoologie d’Anvers (KMDA) and the Société Royale Belge de Zoologie (RBZS).
2015: Paul Brien Award (Promotion 2015). Best master thesis of Zoology in the Department of Biology of Organisms of the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.