nicky.dries@kuleuven.be

Nicky Dries is a Research Professor (i.e., tenured Associate Professor with a special research mandate—BOFZAP) at the KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business (Belgium), and an Adjunct Professor at BI Norwegian Business School in Oslo, Norway. She is also a Research Fellow at Vlerick Business School (Belgium). She conducted her doctoral research on talent management and (subjective) career success at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium), during which time she was also a visiting scholar at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (the Netherlands). She obtained her doctoral degree in December of 2009, after which she took up a postdoc position at the KU Leuven. She has been a visiting scholar at University of Tilburg (the Netherlands), Wirtschaftsuniversität Vienna (Austria), Reykjavik University (Iceland), IESE (Barcelona), TUM München (Germany), and University of Victoria (Canada). In addition, she was a Fulbright scholar at Boston University School of Management (US) in 2012. Nicky was an Associate Editor at Applied Psychology (APIR) until 2019, and is or was on the editorial boards of Journal of Vocational Behavior (JVB), Journal of World Business (JWB), and European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology (EJWOP). She is an evaluator for the Research Foundation-Flanders (FWO), as a member of Expert Panel G&M3 (Psychology). In recent years, Nicky has won several best paper awards and citation awards, and was recently listed as one of the world’s top-100.000 scientists across domains (Ioannidis et al., 2019; PLoS Biol). In 2016, she was selected to be featured on AcademiaNet, the European database of leading women in science. In 2021, she was selected as one of Belgium's "40 under 40" (i.e., future societal leaders). Nicky’s primary research interests are talent management, untapped employee potential, and the future of work. She is an active member of the two largest cross-cultural projects in career studies, i.e. 5C (Consortium for the Cross-Cultural Study of Contemporary Careers) and the Career Adaptability/Life Design project. She is frequently invited to lecture nationally and internationally, both in the academic and the business world.