Activities

[scheduled] 2026 (2nd half) – Co-organisation of the Second Early Career Scholars Workshop Series for the Division for the History of Science and Technology (DHST) of the International Union for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (IUHPST), online

2023/06/01 – Organisation of an international symmetry workshop with respondents, online [pdf] [videos]

2021/09/16 – Organisation of the symposium «Symmetries and conservation laws in history and philosophy of general relativity», European Philosophy of Science Association 2021 conference (EPSA21), 15-18/09/2021, online + University of Turin, Italy

2021/03/17, 04/28, 05/26 – Organisation, with the help of Alexandre Guay, of the Austro-Belgian meetings in philosophy of physics and science, online + Department of Philosophy, KGW Faculty, University of Salzburg, Austria & Centre de philosophie des sciences et sociétés (CEFISES), Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium [videos]

2020/03/03, 2020/10/19-2021/06/07 – Co-organisation of the new Research seminar on sciences and technologies of the Strasbourg branch of Archives Henri-Poincaré, online + University of Strasbourg, France

2017/07/03-04 – Co-organisation, with Alexandre Guay, of the international conference «Direct empirical status and the ontology of symmetries in physics», Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium [link]

2016-2017 – Co-organisation, with Alexandre Guay, of a reading group in philosophy of physics on the topic of time in physics, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium [pdf]

2015/10/12, 11/03, 12/04 – Organisation of the presentations of Rodrigo Lastra Reis Cid, Adolphe-Dieumerci Bonyanga-Bokele, Bruno Leclercq at the Work in Progress seminar, Centre de philosophie des sciences et sociétés (CEFISES), Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium

2015/02/18 – Co-organisation of the presentation of Jean Bricmont at the seminar of the Institut supérieur de philosophie (ISP), Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium

2014/09/25-27 – Co-organisation of the 3rd International Doctoral Conference in Philosophy of Science of the Société de philosophie des sciences (SPS), 25-26/09/2014, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium, and collaboration relative to the organisation by the BSLPS and the NCLHPS of the 4th Young Researchers Days in Logic, Philosophy of Science and History of Science, 26-27/09/2014, Université catholique de Louvain and the Royal Academy of Belgium

 

Teaching

2022/03-2022/06 – «Philosophy of symmetries in physics», online + University of Salzburg, Austria

2021/10-2022/01 – «Introduction to philosophy of science and physics», online + University of Salzburg, Austria

 

Research visits

2025/03/16-20 – Research visit to the London School of Economics (LSE), UK. Attached to the Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science (CPNSS), promotor: Bryan Roberts. European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA) Fellowship Scheme 2023–2024 (extended to 2023–2025)

2018/04/23-05/31 – Research visit to the Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Attached to the Faculty of Humanities and Descartes Centre, supervised by Guido Bacciagaluppi. Descartes Centre Junior Fellowship (Utrecht University)

2018/03/01-08 – Research visit to the University of Geneva, Switzerland, to Christian Wüthrich, Geneva Symmetry Group and Space and Time after Quantum Gravity Templeton Project. F.R.S.-FNRS grant for short stays abroad (the French-speaking community of Belgium)

2017/02/06-04/13 – Research visit to the Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Attached to the Faculty of Sciences and Freudenthal Institute, supervised by Guido Bacciagaluppi. Erasmus+ doctoral traineeship abroad (Faculté de philosophie, arts et lettres, Université catholique de Louvain)

2016/02/01-07/13 – Research visit to the University of Leeds, UK. Attached to the Centre for History and Philosophy of Science, supervised by Steven French. F.R.S.-FNRS grant for short stays abroad (the French-speaking community of Belgium)

 

Participation in summer schools

2017/07/10-13 – Summer school «Spacetime and quantum physics» organised by the Italian Society for Logic and Philosophy of Science (SILFS) in Urbino, Italy

2014/09/02-06 – Summer school «Methods and foundations of science» organised by the Société de Philosophie Analytique (SoPhA) in the Abbey of Saint-Jacut-de-la-Mer, Bretagne, France

 

Representation by election

2019 – Member of the Board of the Centre de philosophie des sciences et sociétés (CEFISES), Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium