Work Experience

2022 -, Researcher at Thünen Institute of Rural Economics, Germany 

2021 – , Researcher, DARE University of Göttingen, Germany

2012 – 2021, Research Fellow, European Commission, Joint Reseach Centre, Seville site, Spain

• • • Collaborating on development of the RHOMOLO regional computable general equilibrium model 

    • Implementation of labour market and transport modules for the RHOMOLO CGE

    • Empirical work on labour economics (wage rigidities) and spatial modelling (migration, transport modelling)

2012-2013 Lecturer, University of Antwerp, faculty of business and economics 

• • • Lecturer of the course International Economics and European Integration

2008-2012 Senior researcher, University of Leuven, faculty of business and economics

• • • Research work on fiscal federalism, factor mobility, labour market policy and economic geography. 

2003-2008 Teaching and Research Assistant, University of Leuven, faculty of business and economics 

• • • Teaching assistant for the courses ‘Economics of Transition’, ‘Labour Economics’ and ‘Advanced Labour Economics’. 

    • Research work on different topics, including mainly empirical work on firm level panel data analysis and theoretical work on trade and factor mobility. 

 2005-2006 Course holder, The Irish College in Leuven 

• • • Lecturer of the course ‘The Economics of European Integration’ 

 2004-2005, Visiting researcher, Graduate Institute for International Studies, Geneva 

• • • Research on models of economic geography with non-market wage setting, under supervision of Damien Neven and Richard Baldwin