I am a post-doctoral fellow of the Flemish Research Foundation (FWO) at Ghent University and an affiliated scholar of the Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations. Between 2019 and 2022 I was a post-doctoral fellow with the ERC-funded KITAB project, with whom I continue to collaborate.

I studied History and Arabic and Islamic Studies at Ghent University and the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo. I obtained my PhD in history at Ghent University in January 2019 with a dissertation entitled “The Past, Panegyric, and the Performance of Penmanship: Sultanic Biography and Social Practice in Late Medieval Egypt and Syria". This dissertation won the 2020 BRAIS – De Gruyter Prize in the Study of Islam and the Muslim World. I am generally interested in the narrative qualities of historiography and the ways in which authors made use of literary forms of expression in medieval Islamic written culture.