Summary
Stevie Poppe is a PhD candidate at KU Leuven researching historical revisionism as a form of strategic online disinformation within contemporary Japanese politics, supported by an FWO doctoral fellowship. With a background in computer science (BA) and Japan Studies (MA), plus 18 months at Chuo University in Tokyo on a MEXT scholarship, he bridges computational thinking and regional expertise to analyze digital information dynamics. Over nine years of professional and academic engagement, he combines methodological rigor in humanities research with technical fluency in programming and technology. Based in Leuven, he pursues interdisciplinary approaches that link socio-informatics, political communication, and digital media ecosystems. Outside academia he composes music, reflecting a creative attention to pattern and structure that informs both his research and coding interests.
9 years of coding experience