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 one discipline into the other, deliberately building her academic training at the intersection of philosophical analysis and business economics.

She is currently a PhD researcher at the MUX unit of SMIT, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Nanouk Verhulst and Prof. Dr. Arne De Keyser (co-supervisor from EDHEC), both experts in service research. In her PhD project, Marie investigates the moral implications of an employee's use of artificial intelligence in service contexts. 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.

In addition to her research, she works as a teaching assistant in the Department of Business, within the Marketing and Consumer Behavior and Finance units. There, she assists with the courses: Corporate Finance (2BA), Corporate Finance and Investment Analysis (1MA), and Marketing (1BA) within the TEW/HI and Management (Bedrijfskunde) programs.