Experience

PhD Researcher

University of Twente

PhD research in the context of the European Research Council (ERC) funded project Processing Citizenship (grant agreement No 714463) and at UTwente faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences (BMS), section of Science, Technology, and Policy Studies (STePS).

Associate Researcher

Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna

Assisted in the preparation of scientific publications for the Processing Citizenship project and in coordinating and organizing the concluding conference for the project, showcasing event management and logistical skills.

Technical Secretariat for 9th STS Italia Conference

Società Italiana Di Studi Su Scienza E Tecnologia (STS Italia)

Established and maintained the conference website, managed all communication aspects of the submission and review process for conference contributions, and acted as a central point of contact for authors and participants.

In-service training Text and Data Mining unit

European Commission Joint Research Centre (Ispra, Italy)

Completed a highly competitive in-service traineeship at the EU Joint Research Centre (JRC) Text and Data Mining Unit, enhancing skills in multilingual text mining and natural language processing.

Node.js Developer

MEDIALAAN

Worked as a Node.js backend developer on different microservices for streaming video platform called Stievie, a type of Belgian Netflix for television stations.

IT Consultant

Capgemini Belgium

Worked as an IT consultant for clients in the banking and energy sectors. As a test engineer to improve the quality of a multinational bank’s applications by doing (automated) testing. As a Java developer on an internal tool of multinational electric utility company for managing large B2B contracts.

Education

PhD in Science, Technology, and Policy Studies

University of Twente

Thesis investigating identity data matching in transnational commercialized security infrastructures and beyond. Supervised by Profs. Annalisa Pelizza, Stefan Kuhlmann, Maurice van Keulen.

Postgraduate in Science, Technology, and Policy Studies

Netherlands Graduate Research WTMC

MsC in Business Administration

Vrije Universiteit Brussel

MsC in Applied Computer Science

Vrije Universiteit Brussel

BSc in Computer Science

Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Skills
Technical
Back-end software development (Java EE, Node.js)
Data and softare modeling and design
Quantitative and qualitative research
Academic and professional writing
Languages
English (C2)
Dutch (Mother tongue)
French (B2)
Italian (B1)
Korean (A2)