Veronique Hoste is Senior Full Professor of Computational Linguistics, director of the LT3 language and translation team and research director of the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy. She has expertise in machine learning of natural language, and more specifically in computational approaches to the modeling of semantics and discourse, such as event detection, entity and event coreference resolution, irony detection, emotion analysis, argumentation mining, the modeling of empathy in multimodal conversational agents, etc. In 2023-2024, Veronique was appointed by the Université Libre de Bruxelles as their Francqui chair. Since 2024, she is member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts.