Dries Cavents is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication. He started his academic career with a Bachelor's in Applied Linguistics (KU Leuven, Antwerp). followed by a Master's in Interpreting (Ku Leuven, Antwerp) and a Postgraduate in Conference Interpreting (KU Leuven, Brussels). Afterwards, he has embarked on a new academic challenge, starting a PhD at Ghent University, which he successfully defended in October 2025. His research interests include dialogue interpreting, video remote interpreting, CAI-tools, rapport management and verbal and non-verbal behaviour. In his PhD project he examined how verbal and non-verbal rapport management manifest in onsite and video remote interpreting interactions and how interpreters multimodally deal with these manifestations of rapport management. In his postdoc, he is currently exploring the influence of technology on interpreting practice, looking at CAI-tools for simultaneous interpreting and video-mediation for dialogue interpreting.
