Diederik finished his industrial engineering degree at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in 2015. Thereafter, he obtained an electromechanical engineering degree at the Brussels Faculty of Engineering (BRUFACE) in 2017. Currently, he is performing a PhD thesis as a research fellow of the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique - FNRS, under co-supervision of Prof. De Paepe at UMONS.