Curriculum Vitae

PhD in Computer Science

University of Zurich

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Abraham Bernstein. Part of the interdisciplinary Digital Deliberative Democracy (D3) project.

Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence

Utrecht University

GPA 3.7/4.0 · Graduate Honours of Interdisciplinary Seminars.

Thesis: Dutch Data Augmentation for Low-Resource Tasks — Carried out at TNO, The Hague.

Bachelor of Science in Artificial Intelligence

Utrecht University

GPA 4.0/4.0, Cum Laude

Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics

Utrecht University

GPA 3.8/4.0

Best Poster Honorable Mention

ACM Conference on Conversational User Interfaces (CUI '26), Bremen

Engagement Award for Special Commitment (Nominee)

Faculty of Business, Economics and Informatics, UZH

CIRES Travel Grant

University of Queensland visit

Demo Paper Third Place Award

The Web Conference 2025 (WWW '25), demo track

DSI PhD Excellence Program & Personal Grant

Digital Society Initiative

Competitive interdisciplinary programme; personal research grant of CHF 5,000.

Advanced Topics in Artificial Intelligence

Teaching assistant, MSc course, University of Zurich

Machine Learning

Teaching assistant, Utrecht University

Natural and Formal Languages

Teaching assistant, Utrecht University

Introduction to Logic

Teaching assistant, Utrecht University

Research Intern

TNO, The Hague

Researched textual data augmentation methods; developed augmentation techniques for Dutch using local LLMs.

Research Assistant

Utrecht Data School, Utrecht

Analyzed Twitter interactions regarding Dutch datacenters (published); developed an algorithmic oversight framework for authorities; conducted political influence research on social media.

PhD Representative

Department of Informatics (IfI), University of Zurich

Represents the doctoral community; member of hiring committees.

Member of the Faculty Assembly

Faculty of Business, Economics and Informatics (OEC), University of Zurich

Reviewer

AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES '24); Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2024); Digital Democracy Workshop 2024

Organising Committee, Digital Democracy Workshop 2024

Digital Society Initiative & Digital Democracy Lab, University of Zurich

Faculty Council Member

Faculty of Science, Utrecht University

Chair, student political party VUUR

Utrecht University

Chair, Linguistics study association

Utrecht University