Jo Pierson#
| Membership Number: | 6240 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | FILM, MEDIA & VISUAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | BELGIUM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.linkedin.com/in/jopierson |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-9077-6229 |
| Twitter: | @iMuses |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/jopierson |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2022 Jul - present Full Professor Responsible Digitalisation - Hasselt University (B)
- 2022 Jul - present Head of School - Faculty School of Social Sciences & R4D - Hasselt University (B)
- 2020 Jan - present Professor - Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) (B)
- 2003 Oct - present Senior researcher - SMIT Studies on Media, Innovation and Technology (B)
- 2018 March - 2022 June Principal Investigator - imec Centre of Excellence ‘Humanized Technologies’ (B)
- 2014 Jan - 2019 Dec Associate Professor - Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) (B)
- 2003 Oct - 2013 Dec Assistant Professor - Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) (B)
- 2003 Oct - 2004 May Advisor-Researcher - TNO Strategy, Technology and Policy (NL)
- 1999 Oct - 2003 Sep PhD Fellow - FWO National Science Foundation Belgium/Flanders (B)
- 1996 Oct - 1999 Sep Researcher - VUB-SMIT (B)
Fields of Scholarship
- User innovation
- Data privacy and public values in data-driven technologies
- Educational technologies (edtech)
- Algorithms and artificial intelligence
- Digital platforms
- Science and technology studies (STS)
- Media and communication studies
- Disinformation and polarisation
- Digital media and communication policy
- Smart cities
- Media and communication studies
Honours and Awards
- 2018 Research Chair ‘Data Protection on the Ground’, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium
- 2015 Visiting Senior Fellow in the Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), United Kingdom
- 2014 Visiting Scholar in the Department of Media Studies, University of Amsterdam (UvA), The Netherlands
- 2014 Research Sabbatical, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium
