Experience

CV

Experience

Jan 2025 to present

San Francisco

ClimateWorks Foundation

AI Lead

Work at the intersection of AI and climate, spanning foundation decision-making and grantmaking.

  • Conceived and executed the roadmap for six LLM-based products powering horizon scanning and climate policy and philanthropic tracking
  • Driving insights for $400M+ in annual grantmaking
  • Invited by the Salesforce Foundation at NYCW to discuss AI and sustainability with VP-level sustainability officers at IBM, Mastercard, Visa, Salesforce and AWS

Jan 2025 to present

San Francisco

Climact

International Partnerships Manager

Providing strategy consulting services to businesses and governments through data- and AI-driven work on decarbonization, climate risk, regulatory tools and governance.

  • Leveraging a partnership with ClimateWorks Foundation to help public and private actors study decarbonization scenarios, climate risk and net-zero pathways
  • Scaled operations across the Americas and Africa, securing partnerships with the World Bank, African Development Bank, the Mexican Ministry of Environment and philanthropic foundations

Dec 2023 to Nov 2024

Brussels

Toyota Motor Europe

AI Engineer

Developed AI-driven processes to simplify and harmonise market offering throughout Europe.

  • Lead Engineer on an AI-driven recommendation platform harmonizing vehicle offerings across 30 European markets
  • Projected to save €6M+/year in time-gains and €50M+ in production OPEX
  • Worked with product planning, logistics, R&D and marketing teams

Sep 2022 to Dec 2023

Brussels

Euranova

R&D Data Scientist

Worked within Euranova's private research lab on state-of-the-art AI techniques focusing on AI privacy and ethical responsibility.

  • Led a research team to develop an algorithm to scale Graph GenAI Models on transactional datasets
  • Published at ACML 2024 and used by SWIFT
  • Developed a Responsible AI Framework and contributed to EU AI Act readiness work

Sep 2021 to Jun 2022

Remote

H&M Group

AI Research Intern

Created a method for explainable quantile prediction of sales to control overstock in H&M stores.

  • Invented and deployed a novel technique for explainable quantile prediction of sales
  • Work published at IDA 2024

Sep 2020 to Aug 2021

Brussels

Wequity

AI Engineer

Built and deployed a natural-language AI pipeline to derive ESG insights from news and social media data.

  • Enabled portfolio-level sustainability analytics for investors

CV

Volunteering

Dec 2025 to present

San Francisco

Belgian Club of Northern California

Board Member

Organizing social and tech networking events for the Belgian community in the Bay Area.

Sep 2019 to Sep 2022

Belgium

Rock Fever

CFO & Board Member

Managed finances and administration for a non-profit organizing bi-monthly dance events for 300+ attendees.

Aug 2020 to Aug 2022

Belgium

Scouts of Belgium

Leader

Led and organized camps for 40 youths, including participants with mental and physical disabilities.

Achievements

Selected facts

Prince Albert Fund

  • Prince Albert Fund laureate
  • Selected under the Prince Albert Fund Fellowship with an acceptance rate below 5%

Education

  • Summa cum laude in both MSc and BSc
  • Graduated 1st in cohort both times

Publications

  • 3 publications in applied AI
  • Graph generation, forecasting and temporal models
  • Published at ACML, IDA and EuroMLSys