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 examines 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.
