About

I’ve made up my mind: AI safety is the most pressing problem of our generation, and I’m joining the vanguard.

Right after wrapping up my PhD in Computational Physics (2 October ’26), I’m heading to San Francisco for a deep dive into theoretical alignment. Then I’ll do a hackathon or two, complete the BlueDot project sprint, and hope to be selected for a fellowship. My plan is to get deep into the technical side of AI safety, after which I want to find the most effective way to support technical AI governance in Brussels.

A little bit about my background. I’ve been focusing on discrete dynamical systems and network theory for the past five years, contributing to the field with eight peer-reviewed publications. I loved the university teaching I got to do along the way, and was thrilled to co-organise the world’s leading international conference on cellular automata. Before that, I analysed gravitational wave data at the National Institute of Subatomic Physics in Amsterdam, and helped shape Belgium’s COVID response strategy through epidemiological modelling. Even further back, I studied unconventional consciousness in my thesis on panpsychism.

While I adore the math, code, and philosophy, what really excites me is entrepreneurship and community building, bringing people together with events like EA lectures and musical performances, many of which take place in the 8-person co-housing I founded and manage.