American academic Nathan Cofnas has been suspended by Ghent University in Belgium while the institution conducts a preliminary disciplinary investigation into public statements he made about the late Cambridge professor Jason Arday.
Cofnas, a postdoctoral researcher in Ghent University's department of philosophy and moral sciences, had raised allegations of plagiarism against Arday shortly before the professor resigned from the University of Cambridge. The allegations generated extensive media coverage but were not established through a formal institutional investigation. Arday, aged 41, became Cambridge's youngest Black professor when appointed in 2023. He was found dead in South London on 14 August.
