Jan De Beule is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the Research Foundation Flanders (Belgium) (FWO), at Gent University (Belgium). His field of research is Galois geometry. He started his research career in 2000, as a PhD student, and obtained his PhD in 2004. Since then, he has continued his research as a postdoctoral researcher.
Apart from Galois geometry, his mathematical interests are in the fields of computer algebra, computational group theory, and combinatorics in general.