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:

• Association for Japanese Literary Studies (AJLS)
• European Association of Japanese Studies (EAJS)
• Gesellschaft für Japanforschung (GJF)
• Gesellschaft für Natur- und Völkerkunde Ostasiens, Hamburg (OAG)
• German Association for Social Science Research on Japan (VSJF)
• Kulturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft (Gründungsmitglied)
• Universitaire Stichting