Current position & other academic roles
Previous roles
- Board member of SIGGEN (2021–2025; roles: treasurer, chair)
- Lecturer/researcher at Tilburg University (2018-2019)
- PhD researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (2014 – 2019)
- Visiting PhD student at the university of Edinburgh (September – November 2017)
Education
- MA Linguistics (Cum Laude), Utrecht University, 2014
- BA Linguistics, Utrecht University, 2011
- BSc Cognitive Artificial Intelligence, Utrecht University, 2010
Certificates
- University teaching qualification (UTQ, see here for more information)
Courses taught
| Course |
Location |
Year |
| Language technology and its social implications |
Tilburg university |
2019, 2020 |
| Language Technology and Society |
Tilburg university |
2021 |
| Understanding Large Language Models |
Tilburg university |
2025 |
| Humanity in the Digital Age |
Tilburg university |
2025 |
| Onderzoekspracticum 3: Inhoudsanalyse |
Tilburg university |
2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 |
| Research skill: Annotation |
Tilburg university |
2019 |
| Research skill: Programming |
Tilburg university |
2019 |
| Basic programming |
Tilburg university |
2018, 2019, 2020 |
| Inleiding Programmeren |
Tilburg university |
2021, 2022 |
| Methodology for Premasters CIS |
Tilburg university |
2018, 2019 |
| Online data collection |
Tilburg university |
2018, 2019 |
| Social Media Analytics |
Tilburg university |
2018 |
| Introduction to Python |
VU Amsterdam |
2015, 2016 |
PhD students
Publications
See the
publications page.
Talks etc
- Panelist at ICT.OPEN2019 discussion: “Where is YOUR moral compass in building AI systems?”
- Invited talk on Ethics in vision & language: a personal journey at the NL4XAI training event (December 1st, 2020).
- Invited talk (breakout session): What (biases) have language models learned? Ladies in Data 2022
- Invited talk: Let’s talk about errors, at the NL4XAI training event (December 15, 2022).
- Invited talk: A sustainable PhD, at the DCC PhD day (February 7, 2024).
- Invited talk: Guidelines for Image Descriptions for Blind or Visually Impaired People. NLG in the Lowlands (2024).
Conference & workshop organization
- Organising committee member: CLIN (2010, 2015, 2022), INLG (2018, 2021, 2022, 2023)
- Workshop chair: INLG 2021
- Organizer: EvalNLGEval, NLG in the Lowlands
Reviewing experience
I have reviewed for:
- Journals: Computer Speech & Language, TACL, Research Ethics.
- Conferences: ARR, ACL, COLING, EMNLP, INLG, NAACL, the Global WordNet Conference, CLIN
- Workshops: EvalNLGEval, Ethics in NLP, HumEval, and NLP-OSS workshops, and the ESSLLI student session.
I have also served as an area chair for INLG2020, and as an Ethics reviewer for NAACL.