Marie-Francine (Sien) Moens holds a MSc ("licentiaat") in Computer Science and a PhD degree in Computer Science from KU Leuven. She was appointed as a BOF-ZAP Research Professor in 2005 at KU Leuven. She is holder of the ERC Advanced Grant CALCULUS (2018-2024) granted by the European Research Council. From 2012 till 2016 she was the coordinator of the MUSE project financed by Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) - Open of the European Commission. In 2021 she was the general chair of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2021). In 2011 and 2012 she was appointed as chair of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)and was a member of the executive board of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). She is currently associate editor of the journal IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI) and was a member of the editorial board of the journal Foundations and Trends® in Information Retrieval from 2014 till 2018. From 2010 until 2014 she was a member of the Research Council of KU Leuven and from 2014 until 2018 she was a member of the Council of the Industrial Research Fund of KU Leuven. From 2014 till 2018 she was the scientific manager of the EU COST action iV&L Net (The European Network on Integrating Vision and Language). In 2014 she was a Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA) Distinguished Visiting Fellow. She is a fellow of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS).