Marie Claerhout

In 2024, Marie obtained the degree of Master of Arts in Moral Sciences and Humanistics summa cum laude. In 2025, she combined the preparatory- and master’s programs in Management, resulting in a second master's degree magna cum laude. In both of her master’s theses, she incorporated influences from the one discipline into the other, deliberately building her academic training at intersection of philosophical analysis and business economics.

She is currently a junior researcher at the MUX unit of SMIT, writing a FWO-proposal under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Nanouk Verhulst and Prof. Dr. Arne De Keyser (co-supervisor from EDHEC), both experts within the field of service research. In this project, Marie investigates the moral cost of an employee's use of artificial intelligence (AI) in services contexts, again integrating her background in moral philosophy into service management. By investigating the negative effects resulting from the trade-off between an employee's moral values and their job performance in AI-enabled settings, she wants to move beyond global notions of ‘ethical concern’ and purely efficiency-driven perspectives in service management. Instead, she aims to highlight the context-specific, morally nuanced dilemmas employees face, and the human-centered implications of technological adoption.