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.

I am Fulbright alumnus from Stanford University. In 2024, I was Oxford Martin School Visiting Fellow at Oxford University. and in 2023–2025, 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.