Projects

Funded projects and research programmes.

• OpenAI
  2026The rate and direction of automated scienceOpenAI Economic Research Exchange, inaugural cohort, principal investigatorAs AI automates more of the research process, we study how it changes the rate and direction of science: how fast discoveries come, and which questions researchers pursue or leave behind.
• Francqui
  2025–2028Francqui Start-Up GrantFrancqui FoundationWe ask how large language models change scientific discovery and innovation, drawing on automated science and the science of science.
• VUB
  2025–BOF ZAP appointment on language models, science, and innovationResearch Council of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, with an internal starting grantA research professorship to study how large language models interact with science and innovation.
• JRC
  2025–2026AI Research Support Tools for SPRInTJoint Research Centre, European CommissionWe test how large language models can help write research briefs.
• FWO
  2023–2026Conditional generative models for transparent discrimination detection and mitigationFWO Senior Postdoctoral FellowshipWe build generative models that show where algorithmic decisions treat people unfairly, and use them to reduce that unfairness.
• Innoviris
  2022–2023The ethical and inclusive AI insuranceInnoviris R&D project, with Allianz, postdoctoral researcherWe developed algorithms that make the machine learning models used in insurance more transparent and easier to interpret.
• Innoviris
  2020–2021Sentometrics: go2marketInnoviris spin-off programme, researcher-entrepreneurWe brought our text analytics research to market, developing it from fundamental research into products.
• Google
  2019Google Summer of Code, sentometricsGoogle
• Innoviris
  2018–2019Team Up: AI sentometrics tools for optimized textual sentiment indicesInnoviris Team Up, with Belga (the Belgian news agency), team memberWe turned text, such as daily news, into numbers that help predict economic trends, from consumer confidence to policy uncertainty in Belgium.
• NBB
  2018Research Programme for Young ResearchersNational Bank of BelgiumWe used daily news to estimate consumer confidence before the monthly survey results come out.