Hi and welcome!
I am Associate Professor of Economics (with tenure) at ECARES, at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Université Libre de Bruxelles.
In 2025, I was academic consultant to the European Central Bank Research Network “Challenges to Monetary Policy”.
Research agenda:
Production networks, trade, and micro-to-macro.
For an overview of this agenda, see my 2024 public lecture at the Oxford Martin School on “(Global) value chains: challenges and opportunities”.
Current affiliations:
CEPR Research Affiliate (trade and IO programs)
CESIfo Research Network Affiliate
Complex Adaptive Supply Networks Research Accelerator Member
Institute of European Studies Affiliated Professor
I3h Affiliated Researcher
VIVES KU Leuven Fellow
Ongoing grants/funding:
BELSPO BESEDEP Grant on Strategic autonomy of the Belgian economy (lead promotor, 135k euro, 2026).
BELSPO HAIOPOLICY Grant on inequality in production networks and consumption heterogeneity (lead promotor, 881k euro, 2023-2027).
AIML4OS on Foundations and Advances of Machine Learning in Official Statistics (collaborator, 4 mln euro, 2024-2028)
BELSPO BE-PIN on Post-Covid academic and policy collaboration and preparedness (collaborator, 2 mln euro, 2023-2027)
See also my CV, Google Scholar, and GitHub.