Curriculum Vitae

Timeline
2002–2006Master in philosophy (Ghent University)
2006–2007Postgraduate Studies in Logic, History and Philosophy of Science (Ghent University)
October 1, 2007 – September 20, 2011FWO Research Fellow – Ghent University
October 1, 2011 – September 30, 2017Postdoctoral Research Fellow (FWO) – Ghent University
October 15 – December 31, 2017Doctoral Assisant – Leuven University
March 1, 2019 – presentPostdoctoral researcher – Ghent University
October 1, 2019 – October 1, 2023First holder of Etienne Vermeersch Chair — Ghent University

Title of dissertation: Here be dragons. Exploring the hinterland of science.
Date public defense: March 15, 2011

Research Stays Abroad
September 1 – October 17, 2009Study visit with Prof. Massimo Pigliucci, Lehman College, The City University of New York
September 6 – October 6, 2010Study visit with Prof. Massimo Pigliucci, Graduate Center (CUNY), New York
April 24 – October 11, 2013Postdoctoral fellow at the Konrad Lorenz Institute (Vienna)
February – July 2016Study visit at the Center for Cognitive Studies, with Prof. Daniel Dennett (Tufts University, Boston)
April 11 – May 15, 2017Research stay at the Central European University in Budapest, with Dan Sperber
Scientific Awards
2006SKEPP Award for best Master’s thesis: De naakte keizers van de psychoanalyse: de immunisatiestrategieën van een pseudowetenschap
2011‘Book of the year’ award for De ongelovige Thomas heeft een punt
2012Shortlist ‘Socrates Wisselbeker Filosofie’ for the book De ongelovige Thomas heeft een punt
2013Shortlist Science Communication Award, Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en
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