01/10/2005-current: Professor at the KU Leuven (Full Professor since 2011)
01/10/1996 – 30/09/05: Senior Research Fellowship, Fund for Scientific Research Flanders
(Belgium)
Ph.D. in Psychology, University of Leuven, February, 1995.
01/10/1989 – 31/01/1995: Junior fellow of the Fund for Scientific Research (FWO) Flanders,
Master’s degree in Psychology, University of Leuven, 1989.
Bachelor’s degree in Psychology, University of Leuven, 1986.
Programme Director Bachelor Pscyhology 2006-2010
Programme Director Master Psychology: 2009-2013
Member of the Board of the Department of Psychology: 2007-2011
Member of the Board of the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences: 2007-2008
Member of the advisory committee of the faculty (beoordelingscommissie), 2015-2018
Ombuds doctoral programme Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences: 2009-present
Local confident Humanities and Social Sciences (Vertrouwensantenne), 2015-present
Confidant for questions and reports regarding scientific integrity for the Humanities and Social Sciences Group, 2015-present
Workshop “Deductive reasoning and strategies”, Brussels, March 20-21 1998 (with coorganizers Gino Devooght, André Vandierendonck, & Géry d’Ydewalle).
Workshop “The Mental Models Theory: Extensions and Refinements”, Brussels, March 23-24 2001 (with co-organizers Walter Schroyens, André Vandierendonck, & Géry d’Ydewalle).
Workshop “Cognitive Psychology and Linguistics-Pragmatics”, Leuven, April 4-5 (together with Ira Noveck)
“The Fifth International Conference on Thinking”, Leuven, July 22-24 2004 (with co-organizers David Green and Ken Gilhooly)
“The Sixth International Conference on Thinking”, Venice, August 21-23, 2008 (with Vittorio Girotto as main organizer, and I as one of the co-organizers
“EURO-XPRAG Leuven Workshop”, Leuven, June 10-13 2010 (with Ira Noveck and Bart
Geurts)
Member of the Steering Committee of EURO-XPRAG (2009-2013), a ESF-funded project which aims to support Experimental Pragmatic research through collaborations, workshops and conferences in order to provide leadership for this field worldwide.
Associate Editor Acta Psychologica: 2018-present
Guest editor Psychologica Belgica (2012), Journal of Cognitive Psychology (2012), Frontiers in Psychology (2019)
Reviewer of Acta Psychologica – ANR France - British Journal of Psychology – Cognition -Cognitive Science Society - Current Psychology of Cognition - Economic & Social Research
Council (ESRC – United Kingdom) – ERC - European Journal of Cognitive Psychology - Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition - Journal of Memory and Language – Journal of Pragmatics - Memory & Cognition – NWO Netherlands - Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology – Swiss National Science Foundation - Thinking & Reasoning – Xprag Euro – …