Lies Van de Vijver is a research coordinator on WIRE for FilmEU, the European University for Film and Media Arts at LUCA School of Arts, Belgium. As a researcher she works on historical and contemporary visual culture, film programming and cinema experience. She has been involved as coordinator and researcher in several international projects e.g. European Cinema Audiences and Cinema Histories. She is the (co-)author of international publications e.g. Handbook of Comparative New Cinema Histories (2024), Gent Filmstad (2021) and Mapping Movie Magazines (2020).
Lies Van de Vijver is member of the Academic Council of the FilmEU European University Alliance.