He is a trustee of the TESOL International Research Foundation and a member of the Program Committee of the Department of Modern Languages of Carnegie Mellon University.

He is co-editor of a series Studies in Bilingualism from John Benjamins Publishing Company.

[5] He is one of the members of the "Dutch School of Dynamic Systems" who proposed to apply time-series data to study second language development along with van Geert, Lowie, and Verspoor.

[8] In an interview, published in Alkalmazott Nyelvtudomány, (Applied linguistics in Hungarian) de Bot said that he is in interested in the application of circadian rhythm in second language acquisition.

[9] de Bot has supervised numerous PhD students, including Wander Lowie,[10] Tal Caspi,[11] and Belinda Chan.