Sven was a teaching assistant (6 years), then a post-doctoral researcher (4 years) at the WISE lab, Computer Science Department of the Faculty of Science at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He finished his Phd titled "Designer Specified Self Re-organizing Websites" to obtain the degree of Doctor in Science in 2005. Since then, he held a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship (IEF) at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain, an assistant professor position at the MOSI lab of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and is currently a post-doctoral researcher at the Universitat Jaume I of Castellon, Spain.