I am a Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Organizational Behavior and Technology at the University of Zurich’s Center for Leadership in the Future of Work. It is my responsibility to manage the Center’s 'Future of Work Spatial Computing Laboratory', where innovative studies are developed to understand how employees think, feel, and behave in immersive virtual environments. Of particular interest to me is the Metaverse which has the potential to completely change the way employees go about their daily working lives. Through a better understanding of people in virtual space, I aim to discover the ingredients necessary to design virtual work spaces that foster employee inclusion, well-being, and productivity.My research focuses on using virtual reality technology to study organizational leadership, employee emotions, and technology adoption. I furthermore have a keen interest in seeing virtual reality technology being used to its fullest potential in scientific research, and am currently working on a long-term project to develop an open metaverse which organizational researchers around the world can operate to conduct innovative studies of their own.I received my PhD from the KU Leuven, where my research focused on talent management practices and how employees, both talents and non-talents, react to it. My research findings have garnered ample interest from the business world, which led me to be invited as a key speaker at various conferences for HR managers in Belgium.