1. Consulting
Projects for the Organisme National des Déchets RAdioactifs et des matières Fissiles enrichies (ONDRAF/NIRAS, Belgium) dedicated to the ethical and societal aspects of radioactive waste management:
- 2025: Ethical framework of ONDRAF/NIRAS
- 2024: Ethical analysis of multinational shared repositories
- 2023: Overview of ethical tools as alternatives to ethical matrices
- 2022: Societal and ethical aspects of SFC1 – Update
- 2021: Ethical studies SFC1 – national policy – reversibility/retrievability
- 2020: Ethical studies SFC 1 – strengthening fundamentals – Accounting for future generations in radioactive waste management: The case for temporalized ethical matrices
- 2019-2020: On overcoming intergenerational conflicts
- 2018-2019: Societal and ethical aspects of SFC1
- 2017-2018: Ethical evaluation of the optimization principle applied to the long-term management of category B and C waste: application to the choice of host rock
Project for the Institut pour la Maîtrise Des Risques (IMDR, France)
- 2018-2022: Understanding risk judgement and risk perception in decision making: understanding the choice of individuals and groups facing hazardous situations
2. Expertise
- 2024-2025: Member of the comitee of the Haut Conseil de l’évaluation de la recherche et de l’enseignement supérieur (Hcéres, France) in charge of the assessment of the Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA, France)
- 2022- Member of the Comité éthique de la Recherche of the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB, Belgium)
- 2019- Member of the Comité éthique et société of the Agence Nationale pour la gestion des Déchets RAdioactifs (ANDRA, France)
- 2013- Ethical assessment of projects for the European Commission
- 2012- Member of the program committee for the conferences of the Institut pour la Maîtrise Des Risques (IMDR, France)
- 2011- Various scientific assessments of research projects (European Commission, ANSES (French agency for food, environmental and occupational health safety), ANR (French
national agency for research), etc.)
3. Teaching
- 2021- : “Epistemology of science and engineering ethics” (ULB, Ecole polytechnique de Bruxelles, 5ECTS, Mandatory BA3 course)
- 2021- : “Socio-technical controversies” (ULB, Ecole polytechnique de Bruxelles and UMONS, Polytech Mons, 2ECTS, Mandatory BA3 course)
- 2015-2021 : “Epistemology of science and technology” (ULB, Ecole polytechnique de Bruxelles and Ecole interfacultaire de Bioingénieurs, 3ECTS, Mandatory BA3 course)
- 2012-2021 : “Engineering ethics” (ULB, Ecole polytechnique de Bruxelles, 3ECTS, MA2 course)
- 2014-2019 : In charge of the doctoral training “Ethics in research” (ULB, 3ECTS equivalent)
- 2009-2011: “Reflective practice” and “Didactics of philosophy” (ULB, Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres, 3ECTS, MA2 course)
4. Scientific research
- 2013-2017 : ULB, researcher (from 2016 projects funded by ONDRAF/NIRAS).Research topics: ethical aspects related to the management of radioactive waste, philosophy of risk, communication about nuclear accidents
- 2008-2013 : FNRS (Belgian Fund for Scientific Research), Postdoctoral researcher at ULB. Research topics: philosophy of risk, engineering ethics, technology ethics, emerging
technologies
- 2004-2008 : FNRS, Research fellow at ULB
Research topic: risk perception - 2001-2004 : ULB, part time researcher (project funded by the Institut pour la Maîtrise Des Risques, IMDR, France)
Research topics: Safety and reliability of industrial systems
Foreign research stays as visiting scholar
- 15/09/2016-15/12/2016: Visiting scholar at Delft University of Technology, Department of Values, Technology and Innovation
- 11/03/2013-11/04/2013: Visiting scholar at UC Berkeley, Philosophy department (Funding from the FNRS)
- 1/10/2008-31/12/2009: Visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge, Department of History and Philosophy of Science (Funding from the Wiener-Anspach Foundation and from
the FNRS)
5. Education
- 2008 : PhD in Philosophy (Université libre de Bruxelles, ULB)
Title: “Risk and risk perceptions. Historical and critical analysis” - 2003 : Graduate (MA equivalent) in Philosophy (ULB),specialization: Philosophy of Science, summa cum laude
- 2000 : Graduate (MA equivalent) in Mechanical Engineering (ULB), specialization: Fluid Mechanics, cum laude.