2023 – I started to work as FWO postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Buddhist Studies of the Ghent University
2022 – I defended a PhD dissertation about an eighteenth-century patriarch of the Vinaya tradition in China
2014-2022 – I worked as Chinese translator for a company with an interest in China’s aluminum industry
2016-2022 – I worked parttime as Chinese translator for an agency in the area of promotion of higher education abroad
2012–2014 – I worked as teacher of the Chinese language at two universities
2007 – During my bachelor studies, I got interested in Buddhism after being introduced to Śāntideva’s Bodhicaryāvatāra

Projects

Projects as postdoc

Vinaya revival on Baohua mountain in Ming–Qing China (2023 - 2026)

Publications

Most recent publications

Full bibliography

Teaching

Lecture "Revival and Decline in the History of Chinese Buddhism," Ghent Univerisity, February 18, 2025

I delivered a lecture titled within the framework of the course "Culture in Perspective" of the Oriental Studies Masster at the Department of Languages and Cultures in Ghent University. Combining a traditional lecture format and groupwork, the lecture traced the change of scholarly evaluation of various periods in the history of Chinese Buddhism as times of either revival or decline.

Lecture "Animal Killing and Release in Chinese and Japanese Buddhism," Ghent Univerisity, October 16, 2024

I delivered a lecture focusing on life release (fangsheng 放生) in Chinese Buddhism within the framework of the master course "Contemporary Asian Academic Debates - I" at Ghent Univeristy. In the final part of the class, my colleague Dr. Paride Stortini supplemented the material on animal killing and release in Japanese Buddhism.

Activities

I am maintaining the website (cbs.ugent.be) and Instagram (@ghentcbs) of the Ghent Centre for Buddhist Studies.
In cooperation with Guttorm Gundersen, I am running the Online Buddhist Studies events list
During the period of May 26-June 7, 2024, I did a research stay with Professor Ester Bianchi at the University of Perugia, Italy.
Since 2021, I have been volunteering my services to the “Encyclopedia of Hangzhou Buddhist Culture” (EHBC), an initiative of the Center for Buddhist Studies at Arizona University (Tucson, AZ, USA).
In 2019, I participated in the International Intensive Program in Buddhist Studies at INALCO, July 6–24, Paris, France, organized by INALCO, Ghent University, Frogbear project, and the Tianzhu Global Network of Buddhist Studies.
For more on my activities, please visit my profile on GISMO.