Coordinating the design and realisation of a sensory / therapeutic garden at HUDERF children's hospital. Facilitating contact and communication between the architect, contractor, hospital's technical staff, external suppliers and the commisioning foundation Kid's Care. Follow up of the overall budget.

Working as a student intern at D+A, an engineering office for spatial and urban planning, landscape design and infrastructural projects.

Available for / Interested in* Consultancy assignments for small and medium-sized academic presses related to strategic repositioning, corporate identity and concept development, portfolio analysis and (re)branding, market research and introduction of new products. * Advocacy and/or association management for special-interest groups with a focus on academic and scholarly publishing, SSH, mission-based publishing, OA and copyrights. * Coaching academic authors at… Show more Available for / Interested in* Consultancy assignments for small and medium-sized academic presses related to strategic repositioning, corporate identity and concept development, portfolio analysis and (re)branding, market research and introduction of new products. * Advocacy and/or association management for special-interest groups with a focus on academic and scholarly publishing, SSH, mission-based publishing, OA and copyrights. * Coaching academic authors at pre-publication stage offering advice and insights on how and where to get published: review of book-proposals, providing a publisher's perspective on outline, structure and set-up, definition of the targeted readership and market potential, assessment of possible publishers and contracts. Available for (guest) lectures and workshops.Specific expertise in - Academic and university press publishing (SSH) in Europe and US- Peer review procedures and assessment of academic output- Scholarly monographs and journal publishing- Open Access and Copyrights Show less

Responsible for overall business and publishing strategy at Leuven University Press, an academic publishing house owned by the University of Leuven, publishing around 40 titles annually in English and Dutch on various subjects in the humanities and social sciences. Achievements include - successfully developing and communicating a new corporate identity- setting up and expanding international distribution networks in US and Europe- adding e-books and new digital formats to… Show more Responsible for overall business and publishing strategy at Leuven University Press, an academic publishing house owned by the University of Leuven, publishing around 40 titles annually in English and Dutch on various subjects in the humanities and social sciences. Achievements include - successfully developing and communicating a new corporate identity- setting up and expanding international distribution networks in US and Europe- adding e-books and new digital formats to product range- improved inventory management by introducing PoD showing huge cost reduction- integrating university policy on Open Access into UP business model Show less

Responsible for the lecture on academic and university press publishing in the lecture series 'Inleiding tot het boekenvak' (Introduction to the publishing industry) organized in collaboration with the Flemish publishers association (Boek.be).

Rights management company for the Flemish bookpublishers, responsible for the repartition of appr. 3m euro of collective copyrights annually. Member of Working group Repartition (since 2010), Vice-President of the Board (since 2011)

Organisation for the advancement of University Press publishing in Europe with appr. 20 members. Vice-President (2010), President (2011-2014)