[1] Van Hoof is currently engaged in examining Greek and Latin letters in order to understand lobbying in late antiquity.

[4] The monograph was recognised as the first time a scholar had taken work by Plutarch, often dismissed as "popular philosophy", and seriously evaluated its effect on non-philosophical Graeco-Roman elites.

[5] Van Hoof spent the academic year 2011-12 as a Senior Humboldt Research Fellow at the University of Bonn working on the social role of literature in the fourth century CE, and 2012-13 as a Fellow in Residence at the Göttingen Institute for Advanced Study working on Late antique epistolography.

[6][7] Van Hoof was President of the University of Ghent Postdoc community 2015–17, and in 2016 she won the Hermes Award for Public Engagement and Knowledge Transfer for "extraordinary spirit and effectiveness with which the proponents of this initiative push forward the improvement and visibility of the postdoc status.

"[8] On 1 April 2017 Van Hoof was elected as co-chair-person of De Jonge Academie, a role she held for two years.