Laurence Dierickx, PhD

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. She is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Information Science and Media Studies at the University of Bergen (Norway) since 2022, where she focuses on professional practices and processes in fact-checking from the perspective of developing responsible AI-based technology.

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 (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 interim lecturer in AI at the Department of Information and Communication Science at ULB.