Lifelong student

• Business engineering at KU Leuven (1997-2002)

• Erasmus exchange at the University of Edinburgh (2000)

• PhD in engineering at KU Leuven (2002-2006)

• Teaching development track at Vlerick Business School (2012)

• Case teaching and writing worshop at INSEAD (2015)

• Gamefication workshop at Vlerick Business School (2016)

Researcher

• PhD researcher (2006-2008) and postdoc (2008-2010), KU Leuven engineering department, research group ELECTA

• Research associate (2008-2009), Research fellow (2010-2013), European Univresity Institute, Florence School of Regulation

Entrepreneurial intermezzo (2008-2009)

• Senior VP European and Regulatory Affairs for the interconnector developer Imera Power in Dublin.

• Successfully applied for an exemption for the East-West interconnector.

Professor, Partner

• Guest professor (2009-2017), and professor (since 2022) at KU Leuven

• Associate professor (2012-2019), full professor (2019-2022), partner (2016-2022), senior partner (2022), and visititing professor (2022-2023) at Vlerick Business School

• Part-time professor (2013-2022), full time professor (since 2022) at the European University Institute

Director

• Director Energy Center (2014-2022), Director Online MBA (2021-2022) at Vlerick Business School

• Deputy Director (2020-2022) and Director (since 2022) of the Florence School of Regulation at the European University Institute

Other roles

• Advisor to European Institutions, regulatory authorities, companies

• Member of the editorial board (since 2026) for the Energy Journal of the International Association of Energy Economics (IAEE)

• Associate editor (2022-2026) for the Transactions on Energy Markets, Policy and Regulation of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

• External faculity affiliate (since 2026) of the MIT Centre for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEPR)

Expertise

• Sector focus: energy (since 2002) and space (since 2024)

• Transversal: EU policy, regulation, public affairs, business models, strategy

Teaching experience

• Styles: lecturing, interactive case teaching, storytelling, gamification

• Audiences: Master students, MBA, Executive Education, C-level, Policy makers, Regulators

• Roles: (co)teaching, course director, programme director, executive education portfolio manager

Research experience

• Disciplines: engineering, economics, management, law, policy

• Creating impact: regulatory impact assessments, policy evaluation, advisory roles

• Roles: researcher, PhD supervisor, leading research teams

• Methodologies: optimization modelling, equilibrium models, case studies, conceptual frameworks, interviews

Networking experience

• Organiser of academic networks, seminars, and conferences

• Organiser of events for policy makers, regulators, companies, and academics

• Moderator and speaker at academic seminars, industry events, hearings organized by policy makers

Leadership and management experience

• Content marketing: websites, newsletters, videos, podcasts, (social) media, blogs

• HR and bugetting: recruitment, feedback, career coaching, prioritization of team resources, development and investments

• Fund raising: company funding (University Chairs, studies, memberships, executive education), Grants (national, EU), European Commission contribution agreements

• Change management: developing a vision and setting priorities, organizing a fast growing team, collaborating accross teams and with professional staff, integrate into a matrix organization at department level, managing alignment with university strategy

• Worked in different environments: public university vs business school, centralized vs decentralized organization, national vs international institution, engineering vs social science