Dr. Susan Dierickx is a medical anthropologist with an expertise in gender. She has over 10 years of experience designing and working in interdisciplinary research projects, particularly in low- and middle-income countries.

She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Socio-ecological Health Research Unit at the Institute of Tropical Medicine. Susan has received the Paul de Vroede Prize, and the network she co-founded was honored with the Presidential Medal Award from IFFS.

From 2020 to 2022, Susan served as a research professor and coordinator of the Centre of Expertise on Gender, Diversity, and Intersectionality at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB).

Susan completed her joint-PhD in Gender and Diversity at the VUB and Ghent University (2015-2020). As part of her doctoral research, she designed and implemented an interdisciplinary research project on infertility in The Gambia and Senegal. From 2013 to 2015, she worked as a social scientist at the Medical Anthropology Unit at the Institute of Tropical medicine. During this time she was responsible for the design and implementation of several research projects on malaria and maternal health in The Gambia, Benin and Burkina Faso.

She holds a bachelor in Sociology (Ghent University), a master in social and cultural anthropology with a specialization in African studies (University of Leuven) and an advanced master in development studies (Ghent University). During her bachelor, she spent a year as Erasmus student at the University of Paris X Nanterre, Department of Sociology. As student she conducted several qualitative research projects on people with a disability in Belgium, and alternative forms of tourism in Ghana and Jordan.