CURRICULUM VITAE
CURRICULUM VITAE
Academic Positions
2024–now Junior Postdoctoral Researcher at the Husserl-Archives: Centre for Phenomenology and Continental Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven. Funded by the The Research Foundation Flanders (FWO).
2018–2024 PhD Student and teaching assistant at the Husserl-Archives: Centre for Phenomenology and Continental Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven, Belgium [I received my doctoral degree a year ahead of schedule; I will hold this position as a post-doctoral scholar until October 2024.]
Education
2018–2023 PhD in Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven, Belgium [summa cum laude]
Thesis: “A Geometry of Sufficient Reason: Reconceiving Space and Quantity with Spinoza, Leibniz, Bergson, Whitehead and Deleuze” [graded 19/20]
Supervisor: Prof. dr. Roland Breeur. Jury: Prof. dr. Kristin Primus (UC Berkeley), Dr. Stephen Howard (KU Leuven), Prof. dr. Till Grohmann (KU Leuven)
2015–2016 Research Master of Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven, Belgium [summa cum laude]
Thesis: “The Expressive Continuum: The Bergsonean and Leibnizean lineage of Deleuze” [graded 18/20]
2011–2012 Master of Philosophy at Ghent University, Belgium [magna cum laude]
Thesis: “Ethiek op de open vlakte: Spinozistische en Nietzscheaanse ethiek in het werk van Gilles Deleuze” [graded 16/20]
Journal Referee
· British Journal for the History of Philosophy
· Journal of Modern Philosophy
· Southern Journal of Philosophy
· Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie
· Journal for Spinoza Studies
· Sophia
· Philosophies
· Philosophy and Society
· The Apricot Journal
Editorial Work
Editor of PhilPapers sub-categories “Spinoza: God” and “Spinoza: Substance”
Guest editor of special issue “Spinoza and Negativity” of Tijdschrift voor Filosofie
Guest editor of special issue “Deleuze: Teacher of Spinoza’s Philosophy” of Philosophies
Event Organisation
Leuven Spinoza Symposium (Conference, 21 October 2025, KU Leuven)
The Principle of Sufficient Reason and the Philosophy of Difference (Workshop, 22 May, KU Leuven)
Spinoza and Negativity (Conference, 25–27 September 2024, KU Leuven)