Varia
ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS
- Head of International Office (Faculty of Arts and Philosophy) since October 2015 (Link)
- Head of the Department Languages and Cultures since June 2012 (Link)
- Head of the Department Languages and Cultures of South- and East-Asia 2010-2012
- Speaker Research Group "East Asian Culture in Perspective: Identity - Historical Consciousness - Modernity" 2008-2012 (Link)
- Member faculty board, member policy commission, member commission internationalization,member environmental commison, member commission for the appointment of guest professors.
AFFILIATIONS
- Appointed "collaborative professor" at Kanazawa University (since 2015)
- Adjunct professor of Japanese at the University of Eastern Finland since 2011
AWARDS AND HONORS:
- Laureate Minerva-arward for teaching, Ghent University (2013)
- Award of the "Ambassador's Commendation" for promoting cultural relations between Belgium and Japan (2012)
- Nominated for the Minerva-arward for teaching, Ghent University (2011) (Link)
- Teaching award of the Faculty of Arts and Philiosophy, Ghent University (2010)
MEMBER OF EXTERNAL COMMISSIONS:
- Jury member for the research students commission of the Japanese Education Ministry (MEXT) scholarships in Belgium since 2005
- Jury member of the Monbukagakusho: MEXT Scholarship, JAPANESE STUDIES STUDENTS since 2012
- Jury member for the JET program of the Japanese government in 2006, 2011, 2013, 2017
- Jury member for the Japanese Speech Contest, organized by the Japanese Association (Nihonjinkai) 2006-2013, 2015
MEMBERSHIP OF SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZATIONS:
- European Association of Japanese Studies (EAJS)
- Gesellschaft für Japanforschung (GJF)
- Gesellschaft für Natur- und Völkerkunde Ostasiens, Hamburg (OAG)
- Kulturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft (Gründungsmitglied)
- Universitaire Stichting