Pepijn Hendriks (1977) studied Slavic Linguistics and Literature at Leiden University between 1995 and 2001. In the Wintersemester of 1998-1999, he studied at the Humboldt-Universität in Berlin (Germany) as an exchange student. After his graduation (cum laude) he was a lecturer in Dutch at the Catholic University of Lublin (Poland) for one year. From January 2002 until his return to Academia as a doctoral candidate in September 2005, he was a fulltime language consultant at Genootschap Onze Taal in The Hague. Since February 2011, he has been working as a sub-editor at an Amsterdam-based press agency.