He holds a PhD in Dutch linguistics from the University of Leuven and is a founding member of the Acme comics research group , created at the University of Liège in 2008. Since 2012, he has also been a member of the research unit Cécille at the University of Lille, uniting scholars specialising in foreign languages and cultures. He coedited L’Association, une utopie éditoriale et esthétique (2011) and Comics in Dissent: Independence, Alternative, Self-publishing (2014). His most recent articles focus on the development of the narra- tive system in Belgian and French comics, on the evolution of language use in long-running comics in Dutch and on the state of the Flemish comics field in general. Most of his most recent projects are based on case studies of comics by Brecht Evens and Olivier Schrauwen.