I am an Associate Professor in applied econometrics at the department of economics at Hasselt University and senior researcher (1 day a week) at Statistics Netherlands. 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 industrial organization, economics of innovation, and trade. My research tangles a variety of themes that deviate from perfect market assumptions that are usually incorporated in the neoclassical thought. These include: studying migration, migration mobility, and the role of wage bargaining and labor unions - labor market frictions, the financial crisis and its impact on stock returns - capital market frictions; price markups; productivity and firm demography (family, foreign owned, global firms), monopolistic competition and innovation; wages and criminals, farm valuation and climate change - imperfect foresight. 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.