Bio

I am a PhD candidate in geography at Ghent University, Belgium, and the University of Luxembourg, and a research fellow at the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER). My PhD is part of the FINWEBS project (INTER/FWO/16/11312037/FinWebs), which examines the role of agency in interconnecting international financial centres. Within this, I am studying organizational and technological change in financial infrastructure, focusing on cross-border payments, particularly correspondent banking and SWIFT.

I am interested in economic and financial geography, political economy, power, global finance, financial infrastructure, payments, correspondent banking, SWIFT, fintech, money, CBDC, blockchain, digital assets and tokenization, institutions, the state, East Asia, among others. I hold an MA in global political economy from the University of Sussex, UK.

My life is mostly on hold and severely limited since March 2021 due to long COVID. Because of this, I am also interested in research on causes and treatment of long COVID, ME/CFS, and other post-acute infection syndromes, as well as on the history, psychologization, and stigmatization of these conditions.