Current and Recent Projects

  • Analysis of the use of AI tools by French-speaking journalists (IHECS/ORM research)

  • Analysis of the media coverage of the 2024 Belgian federal election campaign.

  • Analysis of the media coverage of climate change and its consequences in Belgium.

  • Analysis of the diversity of journalist profiles in Belgian newsrooms (ORM/AJP project)

  • 2022-2023 - Belgian collaborator of the Harvard Trust in Science and Science-Related Populism (TISP) Many Labs Studies. Coordinated by Dr. Viktoria Cologna (Harvard University) and Dr. Niels G. Mede (University of Zurich). Topics: Trust in science, populism, conspiracy mentality.

  • 2022-2024 - Automémo (with Antonin Descampe), development of a large corpus of french speaking press articles.

  • 2021-2024 - Co-Pi (With Stephan Van den Broucke and Dominique Vanpee) of the project PANDORIX – Horizon of a Future Health Crisis: Brussels Population and Health Promotion. Topics: circulation of information in time of crisis, prospective research, trust in expert, media and public authorities.

  • 2021-2023 - Co-PI (with Etienne Rivière and Axel Legay) of the project Smart and Social Home Care, funded by Innoviris. Keywords: Critical data studies, ageing, new communication technologies.

  • 2020-2021 - Belgian coordinator of the international comparative research project in 8 countries: The role of communication strategies and media discourse in shaping psychological and behavioral response to the COVID-19 outbreak: an international comparative analysis. Coordinated by Mélissa Généreux, Université de Sherbrooke (Canada), funded by the Canadian Institute of Health Research.

  • 2020-2022 - PI of the project CoviCom: Analysis of the Covid19 infodemic in French speaking Belgium. Funded by the installing budget for young academic of the UCLouvain.

Mentoring and Supervision

  • Supervision of the postdoctoral research program (2020-2024) of dr. Zoltan Dujisin (now assistant professor at Corvinus University): Disinfo Expertise in the Media Cold War, realised at the ORM/UClouvain, funded by the FSR MoveIn program and the CR FNRS grant.

  • Supervisor of the PhD of Charlotte de Condé (2024-ongoing) (Analysis of media coverage of formerly colonised countries in Belgium and France)

  • co-Supervisor with prof. Jean De Munck of the PhD of Li Yao (Defended in 2025) (Title: Digital Public Sphere and Ordinary Knowledge in China. A Sociological Analysis of Two Public Controversies (Demographic and Epidemic Policies).

  • Supervisor of the PhD erasmus program of Yasar Sekerci (Galatasaray Üniversitesi) visting PhD student at the ORM for the year 2022-2023

  • Member of the thesis support committee of Kevin Carillon, Ségolène Cardon, and Basile Godtbil.