Filip Van Droogenbroeck

Filip Van Droogenbroeck is Assistant Professor at the Data Analytics Lab in the Business Technology & Operations department at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Solvay Business School of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB, Brussels, Belgium). Formerly he was Research Professor in Sociology (research group TOR) at the VUB. He published over 20 papers in peer reviewed academic journals, contributed to 12 books, and wrote over 12 policy-oriented reports.

He has extensive experience in the coordination (design, data-collection, analysis, and valorisation) of large-scale quantitative research. His main research interests include sociology of youth, sociology of education, educational policy, compassion and altruism research, and how artificial intelligence can be used to solve social science issues and vice versa. He coordinated projects such as the 'Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS 2018 Flanders)' and the 'Holocaust Police and Human rights project'. Moreover, Filip is co-promotor of an interdisciplinary project on increasing compassion in universities and communities at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and co-initiated the Strategic Higher Education Center of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel where research is used to strengthen university policy. In 2018 he was awarded the European Varela Award for his research project 'compassionate attitude training in a challenging school context in Brussels.' 

Apart from his research, he teaches research methods for business to about 500 students where he implements novel teaching methods such as blended learning, permanent evaluation, and activation of large groups through live surveys (Wooclap)