Appointments
2010 - 2012
Coordinator Erasmus Mundus Language and Communication Technologies (LCT)
Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
2009 - 2012
Coordinator European Master in Clinical Linguistics (EMCL)
Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
• Working closely with the university staff, administration and the students to gain better services during the admission, teaching, examination, evaluation and graduation processes.
• Implementation of directives of the Netherlands organisation for International cooperation in higher education (Nuffic).
• Providing pastoral care to students.
2009 - 2011
Lecturer in Neurolinguistics
Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
• Development of educational materials, examining and student supervising.
• Coordinator, lecturer and/ or teaching assistant of:
o Neurolinguistics I: Presentation of various topics in Aphasiology, Dyslexia and Developmental Language disorders.
o Assessment Tools in Language Pathologies: Discussion of the development, use and evaluation of tests in Aphasia, Developmental Language Disorders & Dyslexia.
o Hot Topics in Linguistics: Guest lecture series covering a broad range of topics in linguistics presented by researchers from our Linguistics department and from outside the University of Groningen.
o Experimental linguistics II: Course covering three themes in psycholinguistics (i.e., semantic activation, serial vs. parallel sentence processing and inferences) and the way experimental data is used to construct models of language processing.
o Research Methodology for Applied linguistics: Introduction to the methods and techniques used in Applied Linguistics and training of the basic statistical analyses using SPSS.
2004 - 2009
PhD candidate in Linguistics
Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
• Accountable for the life-cycle management of the PhD research project including budgetary control, the implementation of research functions, development of research strategies and data gathering and analysis.
• Designing and running behavioural and event related fMRI experiments.
• Analyzing fMRI data using SPM under Matlab and SPSS.
• Responsible for verbal and written reports on research findings.
• Collaborating extensively with (international) colleagues, neuropsychologists and neurologists.
• Organizing seminars, workshops and reading groups.
1999 - 2004
Speech and language pathologist
Algemeen Ziekenhuis Maria-Middelares-Sint-Jozef, Ghent, Belgium
• Responsible for the clinical diagnosis, and treatment of adults with acquired neurological speech and language impairments in a private hospital in Ghent.
1998-1999
Speech and language pathologist
Self-employed, Flanders, Belgium
• Accountable for diagnosis and individual treatment of children with language and learning disorders, dyscalculia, dyslexia, stuttering, articulation problems and voice disturbances.