Dirk Deridder

Mechelen Belgium

Researcher

I am a post-doctoral researcher at the System and Software Engineering Lab (SSEL) since january 1st, 2007. SSEL is part of both the Computer Science Department of the Faculty of Sciences and the Informatics Department of the Faculty of Applied Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. My research career started as a teaching assistant at the Computer Science Department in 1997. At that time my research was in the area of database systems and linguistic tools under supervision of Prof. Dr. Robert Meersman at the Semantics Technology & Applications Research Laboratory. In 1999 I reoriented my research in the area of programming languages and software engineering when joining