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Dr Laurence Dierickx has a professional background in data and computer journalism. She holds a Master's degree in Information and Communication Science and Technology and a PhD in Information and Communication Science. Her dissertation examined the implementation of news automation in newsrooms; through a socio-technical lens derived from science and technology studies. Since 2022, she has been a temporary postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Information Science and Media Studies at the University of Bergen (Norway), focusing on user needs, professional practices, ethics, and processes in fact-checking from the perspective of developing responsible AI-based technology within the Nordic Observatory for Digital Media and Information Disorder (NORDIS).
She teaches data and digital investigative journalism at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium) and is a member of the ReSIC research centre. In 2024, she was accepted as a research fellow at the Digital Democracy Centre (DDC x TrygFonden) at the University of Southern Denmark, where her research focused on the use of large language models in fact-checking. In 2025, she was appointed as an interim lecturer in AI at the Department of Information and Communication Science at ULB.
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