Since 2007, Bambi Ceuppens has been working as a tenured postgraduate researcher at the Royal Museum for Central Africa (Tervuren, Belgium), where she researches the western representation of Africa and Africans, the Belgian and Congolese colonial history, the Congolese diaspora in Belgium, colonial and post-colonial popular culture in Congo as well as autochthony, interculturalism and multiculturalism in the Flemish Region.

Ceuppens is the commissary of the 2010 exhibition on the independence of Congo, scheduled by the KMMA on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the independence of Belgium's former colony.