Her teaching activity are related to Invertebrate Biology, Biological Oceanography and Marine ecosystems. She is the co-coordinator of the master programmes in Marine Biology and in Marine Biodiversity and Conservation. She has supervised six PhD students, 20 masters’ students, and over 30 undergraduates. She is an Associate Editor of the Estuarine Coastal Shelf Science Journal. She is member of the Expertpanel BIO3: Biodiversity and Ecology of the Research Foundation-Flanders (FWO), She has been involved in 22 European and national funded research projects. She has published more than 80 peer-reviewed research articles, and has contributed to six book chapters.