I am an Associate Professor in applied econometrics at the department of economics at Hasselt University and a Senior Researchers at Statistics Netherlands. During the Spring semester of 2026, I held the P.P. Rubens Chair at UC Berkeley. Previously, I worked as a post-doctoral fellow (NWO) at the department of econometrics & OR at Tilburg University, as a postdoctoral researcher at WHU, Vallendar, and as a research fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels. I obtained a PhD in economics from the Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain).
My field of specialization is applied econometrics in the area of applied industrial organization, economics of innovation, trade and management. My research tangles a variety of themes. These include: studying migration, the role of wage bargaining and labor unions, firm outcomes and strategies (ownership, top management compositions, trade outcomes, ICT & AI), mental well-being, and environmental change. Furthermore, I believe that a rich conceptual understanding of bridging the gap between theoretical considerations and empirical findings and a focus on policy challenges provides an intellectual approach that appeals to me very strongly.