I hold a PhD in historical sociolinguistics, and currently teach as a professor (hoogleraar) in the programs in Linguistics and Literary Studies and Applied Linguistics at Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

I am also the coordinator of the FWO-funded research network (WOG) on historical sociolinguistics, an enthusiastic member of the Historical Sociolinguistics Network (HiSoN), and part of the editorial team of the Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics (De Gruyter Mouton). I’m currently also the chair of the research and PhD committee of my faculty, and since 2022, I have also been the chairperson of the Council for Dutch Language and Literature of the Dutch Language Union (Nederlandse Taalunie), as well as a member of the Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal en Letteren (KANTL). Since 2024, I also act as the director of B-TXT, a university-wide core facility on digital text analysis.

My research interests center around the areas of historical sociolinguistics, language variation and change, corpus-based sociolinguistics, sociology of language, and language planning and policy, both from a contemporary and a historical perspective, and with a special interest in multilingual regions such as Brussels.

In my free time, I enjoy reading, traveling, dining and spending time with my family. I use Dutch, English, French and Spanish on a daily basis, and have basic fluency in German.