Teaching

 Current teaching

  1. GEST-S-2002 Sustainable Development, Business and Policy, with Bertrand Collignon (full material on the UV platform)
  2. ECON-S467 Law and Economics of the Environment, with Chiara Armeni (full material on the UV platform)
  3. Sustainability: From Science, Ethics and Economics to Business Action, with Bertrand Collignon, Olivier Gillerot and Julia Jadin (online course for QTEM)

 Current doctoral students

  1. Julia Jadin is interested in responsible consumption
  2. Leticia Pieraerts is interested in the integration of demand flexibility in the electricity wholesale market
  3. Elise Viadere is interested in electricity markets and how they can support the energy transition

 Former doctoral students

  1. Paolo Casini (European Commission DG Growth)
  2. Li Chen (University of Gothenburg)
  3. Luisa Dressler (OECD)
  4. François Koulischer (University of Luxemburg)
  5. Maria-Eugenia Sanin (Université Paris – Saclay)
  6. Aurélie Slechten (University of Lancaster)

 Current master students

Every year I supervise the undergraduate thesis of a number of students working on education, sustainability, energy or climate.

Some of these have been awarded prizes: Tessy Kaiser (ECONB 2013)  received the Sadi Kirchen Prize for her thesis on intergenerational accounting, Mourad El Rougy (ECONB, 2017) received the HERA award for Future Generations, category IT, for a thesis on the benefit of open data for improving environmental policy design and implementation, Guillaume Thys (INGE 2023) was finalist of the 2024 Philippe de Woot award, Anaïs Couronné (ECONP, 2024) received the  2025 HERA award for Future Generations, category economy for a thesis on feasible pathways for phasing out fossil fuels subsidies, Théo Gillard (INGE 2024) received the CREG prize (from the Federal energy regulator) for his thesis on the lessons from the energy crisis for the implementation of carbon pricing, Martin Papageorges (INGE 2025) received the Eugène de Barsy prize for his estimation of the rebound effect in road transportation.

During this academic year, I am working with the following students:

  1. Miryam Benalla on the governance and tools to improve global plant pest surveillance
  2. Pierre Ducomble on decarbonisation under uncertainty
  3. Lorika Kalenderi on the use of AI tools to improve regulatory oversight and reduce fraud
  4. Cyriaque Goossens on a comparison between the German and UK approaches to phasing out coal
  5. Ines Keller on the emerging market for electro-mobility and its potential to contribute to demand-side flexibility
  6. Eliott Kriescher on climate change and stranded assets
  7. Diego Lafeuille on predictive models to optimize electricity demand flexibility
  8. Quentin Langlois on socialisation mechanisms to promote climate action (the case of vegetarianism)
  9. Ramiro Véliz Noacco on policies, energy markets and the returns to energy efficiency investment in Belgium

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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