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 2024, I am a Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Martin School at Oxford University, visiting the Center for Economic Studies at LMU Munich, and also 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 recent 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

• Institute of European Studies Affiliated Professor

• VIVES KU Leuven Fellow

Ongoing grants/funding:

• BELSPO HAIOPOLICY Grant on inequality in production networks and consumption heterogeneity (lead promotor, 881k euro, 2023-2027).

• ARC (Actions de Recherche Concertées) on Superstar firms in production networks (single promotor, 250k euro, 2021-2024).

• BELSPO BE-PIN on Post-Covid academic and policy collaboration and preparedness (collaborator, 2 mln euro, 2023-2027)

• AIML4OS on Foundations and Advances of Machine Learning in Official Statistics (collaborator, 4 mln euro, 2024-2028)

• BELSPO BE-PARADIS Grant on wealth inequality in Belgium (collaborator, 1.2 mio euro , 2020-2024).

See also my CV, Google Scholar, and GitHub.