Awards & Recognition

Top Method Paper Award for the paper Artificial influencers, artificial designs? A systematic review of experimental research on virtual influencers, Communication Theory and Methodology Division, AEJMC annual convention, San Francisco, CA, USA (co-authors: Jaroslava Kaňková & Jörg Matthes).

Acquired the research project Empowering Health: Use of Generative AI to Enhance Citizen Well-being in Japan and Austria, with funding (€ 8.000) provided by the University of Vienna's V2K Strategic Partnership Grant for Collaborations with Kyoto University, as a Co-PI of Jörg Matthes (PI) and Jaroslava Kaňková (also Co-PI)

NeFCA Dissertation Award 2023 by the Netherlands | Flanders Communication Association for the dissertation entitled Disentangling alcohol-related social media effects: A mixed-method approach to explore the role of different socialization agents and different social media message types (Supervisor: Kathleen Beullens, KU Leuven)

Yearly Award for Science Communication for the project #Smokefree, KVAB – Royal Flemish Academy Of Belgium for Science and the Arts (together with Kathleen Beullens and Femke Geusens)

Promising Student Paper for the paper Unraveling adolescents' attention to alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages in Instagram stories: an eye-tracking approach, Information Systems Division, ICA conference, Toronto, Canada (co-authors: Jörg Matthes, Kaitlin Fitzgerald, and Kathleen Beullens)

Frieda Saeys Prize for the paper A qualitative study exploring how boys and girls construct gender norms in alcohol-related self-presentations on social media, awarded by the Frieda Saeys Foundation, 24 Hours of Communication Sciences Conference, online conference due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic (solo-authored submission).