Professor Educational Engineering, Instructional Technology and CALL
Vice chairman of the Institute for Education and Information Sciences (IOIW)
Director R&D of LINGUAPOLIS, the Institute for Language and Communication (Universiteit Antwerpen)
Editor-in-chief of the CALL Journal (Taylor & Francis)
Organizer of International CALL Conferences

Educational engineering as Research
Goal-oriented design of learning environments
Ontological system specification
Computer assisted language learning (CALL)
Speech technology
Linguistic tools & routines
Language pedagogy & teacher training (French, Spanish)
Mother tongue literacy, SLA and academic achievement
Language testing