Resume
Work
Experience
Current
PhD researcher
- KU Leuven
- Doctoral candidate for the Management Strategy and Innovation (MSI) department at KU Leuven FEB
– Recipient of the FWO junior researcher fellowship
– Developing large-scale NLP pipelines for patent text analysis; applying transformer-based models, similarity metrics,
and ML valuation frameworks to million-document corpora.
– Expertise in innovation strategy, IP strategy, R&D competition, portfolio similarity metrics, and IP valuation frameworks
2025-Present
Co-founder Verzekerd op Reis
- Insurtech startup targeting the Belgian travel insurance market.
– Developed a smart digital platform enabling end-to-end policy comparison and purchase.
– Licensed Insurance Broker (FSMA, Belgium)
Freelance
Management Assistant
- Alkreizen
- Deployed as a jack-of-all-trades across the family company.
– Streamlined processes and people alignment during continued digitalisation of the firm.
– Built pricing and financial dashboard pipelines for reporting to the board.
Internships
2024-2025
VC analyst internship
-Plug and Play, remote
– Completed Plug and Play’s University Fellow track prior to joining Analyst Program.
– Conducted startup sourcing, screening, and diligence across multiple verticals; reviewed 500+ startups.
– Developed industry briefs and investment theses for early-stage Belgian startups that led to investments.
2022-2023
Strategic development internship
- KRC Genk
– Analysed department performance, business model, and long-term strategic positioning
– Evolved into managing the Counter-Strike (CS2) team operations for one year, establishing ourselves as the most
dominant BeNeLux CS2 team.
2021-2022
Research internship
- Element61
– Built a decision framework and model using Bayesian Optimization, Machine Learning, and Reinforcement Learning for
predictive maintenance applications in Industry 4.0.
– Successfully deployed this model for two major industrial customers of Element61.
2020-2021
Marketing manager
-Academics for Technology vzw
– Revamped AFT’s marketing strategy to align with its long-term vision, improving daily campaigns and introducing
analytics for trend forecasting and marketing optimization.
Education
2017-2020
Bachelor's degree Business Engineering
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven
2019
Erasmus at EM Lyon
2020-2022
Master's degree Business Engineering
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven
2021
Erasmus at NCCU Taiwan
Skills
& Expertise
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Languages: Dutch (Native), English (Native), French (Fluent)
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Programming Languages: Python, STATA, R, Pytorch, LaTeX
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Cloud/Databases:Azure ML
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Licences & Certifications: Licensend insurance broker (FSMA, Belgium)
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Areas of Interest: ML, Innovation management, IP strategy, Branding strategy
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Soft Skills: Problem Solving, Stakeholder-oriented communication, Data-driven storytelling, Public speaking