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ACADEMIC POSITIONS
1 Sept. 2025         Assistant Professor, Head of the Animal Evolutionary Ecology Lab, Earth & Life Institute
                                    Université catholique de Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium)
 
2021 – 2025        Postdoc Fellow, EON Lab, Biology Department
                                    Ghent University and University of Antwerp (Belgium)
 
2019 – 2020        Postdoc Fellow, The Whiting & Shine Lab, School of Natural Sciences,
                                    Macquarie University (Sydney, NSW, Australia).
 
2018 – 2021        Postdoc Fellow, Functional Morphology Lab, Biology Department (one-year gap to visit Macquarie University)

                              University of Antwerp (Antwerp, Belgium)
 
2017 - 2018         Postdoc Fellow, The Losos Lab, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
                                    Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, USA)


EDUCATION
2012-2017         Ph.D. in Biology, University of Antwerp (Belgium), awarded on March 3, 2017 (Raoul Van Damme Lab)

2010-2012         MSc. in Behaviour and Evolutionary Biology, University of Antwerp (Belgium).
2007-2010         BSc. in Biology, University of Antwerp (Belgium).


MAJOR FELLOWSHIPS
2021            Senior Postdoctoral fellowship (4y), The Research Foundation Flanders (FWO)
2018            ​Junior Postdoctoral fellowship (3y), The Research Foundation Flanders (FWO)
2017            Postdoctoral fellowship (1y), Belgian American Education Foundation (BAEF)


MAJOR RESEARCH GRANTS
2025-2028         Collen-Francqui Start-Up Grant (€200k), Francqui Foundation
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ORGANISATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS
2023            Head Organiser, First International Congress on Rapid Evolution in the Anthropocene, (Antwerp) Belgium

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Editor for :
  • Biology Letters, Editorial Board Member (2017 - now)
  • Journal of Zoology, Editorial Board Member (2017 - 2025)
  • Belgian Journal of Zoology, Editorial Board Member (2018 - now)
  • Acta Herpetologica, Associate Editor (2017- 2025)
  • Behaviour, Special Issue Editor (2021)
 Reviewer for over 60 journals with 120 verified peer reviews. Awarded Top 1% Peer Reviewer in 2018 (Clarivate)
 Member of expert panel in Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution (Bio3) for the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), 2025-2027
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