Academic appointments
Full Professor of English Language and Linguistics, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium, 2022-
Fulbright Scholar-In-Residence, Northern Arizona University, USA, August-December 2022
Associate Dean for Teaching, Faculty of Philosophy, Arts and Letters, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium, 2018-2021
Professor of English Language and Linguistics, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium, 2017-2022
Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium, 2016-2017
Guest professor, Universiteit Gent, Belgium, 2016-2017
Visiting lecturer, Université de Namur, Belgium, 2012-2013
Research Associate, Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS) & part-time lecturer, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium, 2009-2016
Scientific Research Worker, Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS), 2008-2009
Postdoctoral Researcher, Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS), 2004-2008
Visiting scholar, Stanford University, USA, 2004-2005
Research Fellow, Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS), 2000-2004
Education
PhD in English Linguistics, awarded summa cum laude (thesis title: Corpus-based cognitive study of the main English causative verbs. A syntactic, semantic, lexical and stylistic approach; supervisor: Prof. Sylviane Granger), Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium, 2000-2004
Master in Language Studies, ‘Linguistics and Computing’, awarded with Distinction (thesis title: Periphrastic causative verbs get and have. Towards a systematic description; supervisor: Prof. Geoffrey Leech), Lancaster University, United Kingdom, 1999-2000
Teacher Training Certificate, awarded summa cum laude, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium, 1998-1999
Master in English and Dutch Linguistics and Literature, awarded summa cum laude (thesis title: Causative make. A corpus-based study; supervisors: Prof. Sylviane Granger and Prof. André Hantson), Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium, 1997-1999
Bachelor in English and Dutch Linguistics and Literature, awarded summa cum laude, Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix de Namur, Belgium, 1995-1997
Stays abroad
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, 26 February – 4 March 2023: Erasmus+ staff mobility
Northern Arizona University, USA, 22 August – 22 December 2022: Fulbright Scholar-In-Residence
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany, 27 January – 1 February 2020: Erasmus+ staff mobility
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, The People’s Republic of China, 27 March – 17 April 2017: Corpus data collection for the NESSI project (Research Credit of the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research)
Uppsala universitet, Sweden, 7-12 November 2016: Visiting scholar
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, The People’s Republic of China, 5 May – 3 June 2016: Corpus data collection for the NESSI project (Research Credit of the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research)
Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, Germany, 25-29 April 2016: Erasmus+ staff mobility
Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, 4-9 May 2015: Erasmus+ staff mobility
Uppsala universitet, Sweden, 28 October – 14 December 2007: Visiting scholar
Kansai University, Japan, 1-15 October 2007: Expert mission
Stanford University, USA, September 2004 – September 2005: Visiting scholar (Fellowship of the Belgian American Educational Foundation)
University College London, United Kingdom, May – July 2002: Corpus work and elicitation experiments (French Community Travel Grant)
Lancaster University, United Kingdom, September 1999 – July 2000: Master in ‘Language Studies’ (Postgraduate Studentship in the Humanities 1999, Arts and Humanities Research Board; Anglo-Belgian Benevolent Society Award)
Lancaster University, United Kingdom, September – December 1998: Erasmus student mobility