Academic appointments

  • 2022-, Assistant Professor, Department of Transport and Regional Economics, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, BE
  • 2019-2022, Guest Professor Transport Geography at the Master in Transportation Sciences, University of Hasselt, Hasselt, BE
  • 2019-2022, Postdoctoral Fellow, Research Foundation Flanders, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, BE
  • 2014-2019, Ph.D. student, Department of Transport and Regional Economics, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, BE

Education

  • University of Antwerp: PhD. in Applied Economics, 2019
  • KU Leuven: MSc. in Geography, 2013
  • KU Leuven: BSc. in Geography, 2011

Awards

  • Best poster award on the VREF Conference on Urban Freight - 2023
  • Most outstanding dissertation award of the Transportation Geography Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers - 2020
  • Mercator – Orteliusprize for most outstanding Belgian dissertation in the fields of Spatial Planning, Social and Economic Geography, Regional Economics or Urban Economics - 2020
  • FWO grant for long stay abroad - 2019

Activities

  • Expert MORA commission on person mobility 2023- 
  • Pool of scientists of the Federal Council for Sustainable Development (FRDO-CFDD) 2023-
  • Board member of the Urban Studies Institute at the University of Antwerp 2022-
  • Editorial Board of 'International Journal of Logistics' 2022-
  • Editorial Board 'Belgeo' 2022-

Current postgraduate researchers