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PhD alumni yearbook 2019-2020
PhD alumni yearbook2019-2020
ACCOUNTING, FINANCE AND INSURANCE 4
ECONOMICS 6
DECISION SCIENCES AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT 9
MANAGEMENT, STRATEGY AND INNOVATION 13
MARKETING 16
SUSTAINABILITY 17
WORK AND ORGANISATION STUDIES 18
LEUVEN ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION RESEARCH (LEER) 20
CENTRE FOR INSTITUTIONS AND ECONOMICPERFORMANCE (LICOS) 21
RESEARCH CENTRE FOR REGIONAL ECONOMICS (VIVES) 22
Contents
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INTRODUCTION
We proudly present the first edition of the PhD alumni yearbook of the Faculty of Economics and Business.
Obtaining a doctoral degree is an important milestone in your career. A PhD is a title that you havefor life! Since your Alma Mater is the KU Leuven you now officially become a KU Leuven alumnus.We cherish you as an alumnus and would like to keep close ties with you in the future. We inviteyou to become a member of Ekonomika Alumni and we will keep you posted about future faculty
events. We also invite you to contribute to the FEB Career Corner by posting jobs and traineeships to our students once youenter a management position. I also want to draw your attention to a network called the Fellows of the Hogenheuvel-college,where we reward important contributors to public and business life with an exclusive membership to a network of captains ofindustry and government in later stages of their career.
But equally important is that we want to offer you a network of peers. For this reason, in this edition of the yearbook of PhDalumni, you find the names and contact details of all those KU Leuven PhDs from the Faculty of Economics and Business thatgraduate in the same year as you. A peer network can be an important asset to have in future professional life and offers youadded value wherever you are.
Having shared the same type of education in the same place at the same time, creates a bond. On our Faculty’s researchwebsite we will continue to post future PhD alumni yearbooks.
We hope to stay in touch and to see you again on future events organized by the Faculty. In the meantime, we wish you a fruitfuland interesting career path. We are fully confident and convinced that your training will put you in the league of Europe’s finest.
So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, goodbye but not adieu !
Hylke Vandenbussche,
Vice Dean Research and ValorisationFaculty of Economics and Business
September 2020
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Prabesh Luitel
PhD title: Emerging market sovereign bond ratings and spreads
2 September 2019
Supervisors: Prof. dr. Piet Sercu and Prof. dr. Lieven De Moor(Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Co-supervisor: Prof. dr. Rosanne Vanpée
Current position: Assistant Professor of Finance, IÉSEGSchool of Management (France)
: [email protected]; [email protected]
Karim Barigou
PhD title: Fair valuation of insurance liabilities: interplaybetween actuarial judgement and market-consistency
25 September 2019
Supervisor: Prof. dr. Jan Dhaene
Current position: Postdoctoral Researcher, ISFA,actuarial school of University Lyon 1, Lyon, France
Alona Kolomiiets
PhD title: Essays on audit partner characteristics and audit market competition
4 May 2020
Supervisor: Prof. dr. Simon Dekeyser
Current position: Research Assistant, KU Leuven
ACCOUNTING, FINANCE AND INSURANCE
Hamza Hanbali
PhD title: Systematic risk in long-term insurance business
6 September 2019
Supervisor: Prof. dr. Jan Dhaene
Current position: University Lecturer, Monash University
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ACCOUNTING, FINANCE AND INSURANCE
Vanessa Naegels
PhD title: Alleviating financial barriers for women-ownedenterprises in Tanzania
21 September 2020
Supervisor: Prof. dr. Bert D’Espallier
Co-supervisor: Prof. dr. Neema Mori
Current position: Teaching Assistant, KU Leuven
Anne-FlorenceAllard
PhD title: Essays on financial market stability
26 August 2020
Supervisor: Prof. dr. Kristien Smedts
Co-supervisor: Prof. dr. Gunther Wuyts
Current position: Lecturer (Assistant Professor),University of Bristol
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ECONOMICS
Iris Grant
PhD title: Entry and competition in health care marketsand the market for politicians
30 July 2019
Supervisor: Prof. dr. Iris Kesternich
Co-supervisor: Prof. dr. Johannes Van Biesebroeck
Current position: Data Analyst and Project Manager,InterMutualistisch Agentschap (IMA)
Ruben Savelkoul
PhD title: Essays in industrial organization withapplications in the car and music industry
6 September 2019
Supervisor: Prof. dr. Frank Verboven
Emilie Rademakers
PhD title: Essays on labour market inequalities and the digital economy
11 September 2019
Supervisor: Prof. dr. Iris Kesternich
Co-supervisor: Prof. dr. Maarten Goos, University of Utrecht
Current position: Assistant Professor (tenure track),Universiteit Utrecht School of Economics
ElizavetaLukmanova
PhD title: Essays on monetary policy
2 September 2019
Supervisor: Prof. dr. Michal Kobielarz
Co-supervisor: Prof. dr. Ferre De Graeve
Current position: Postdoctoral Fellow, UCLouvain
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ECONOMICS
William ConnellGarcia
PhD title: The role of networks, value chains and demandin international trade
23 September 2019
Supervisor: Prof. dr. Hylke Vandenbussche
Current position: Economic Analyst, European Commission
Tobias Theys
PhD title: Spatial and linguistic mismatches in urban and low-skilled labour markets
17 October 2019
Supervisor: Prof. dr. Stefan Adriaenssens
Co-supervisor: Prof. dr. Dieter Verhaest
Current position: Policy officer Labour Market and Socio-Economic Affairs, Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment(Netherlands)
Jeroen Van den bosch
PhD title: Essays on productivity: from micro to macro
17 October 2019
Supervisor: Prof. dr. Stijn Vanormelingen
Co-supervisors: Prof. dr. Bruno Cassiman and Prof. dr. Jozef Konings
Current position: Postdoctoral Researcher, MSI and IMEC
Wouter Bam
PhD title: Industrial policy-making in mineral-richdeveloping countries
10 October 2019
Supervisors: Prof. dr. Jan Van Hove and Prof. dr. CorneSchutte (Stellenbosch University)
Co-supervisor: Prof. dr. Karolien De Bruyne
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ECONOMICS
ChristopheHeyndrickx
PhD title: Essays in transport and energy economics
22 January 2020
Supervisor: Prof. dr. Stefaan Proost
Current position: Researcher, Transport & Mobility Leuven
: [email protected]; [email protected]
Michaël Rubens
PhD title: Understanding buying power and technologicalchange using production and cost models
8 May 2020
Supervisor: Prof. dr. Jo Van Biesebroeck
Co-supervisor: Prof. dr. Jan De Loecker
Current position: Assistant Professor of Economics,University of California, Los Angeles
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DECISION SCIENCES AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
Joeri Poppe
PhD title: Condition-based maintenance and inventorymanagement in aftermarket services
29 August 2019
Supervisor: Prof. dr. Robert Boute
Co-supervisor: Prof. dr. Marc Lambrecht
Current position: Sr. Solutions Engineer, Ingram Micro
Salim Rostami
PhD title: New models and methods for sequencing and project scheduling
26 September 2019
Supervisor: Prof. dr. Roel Leus
Co-supervisor: Stefan Creemers
Current position: Assistant Professor, IESEG School of Management
Klaas Nelissen
PhD title: Essays on measuring user engagement withonline news
21 October 2019
Supervisor: Prof. dr. Monique Snoeck
Co-supervisors: Prof. dr. Bart Baesens and Prof. dr. Seppe vanden Broucke
Current position: Postdoctoral Researcher, KU LeuvenResearch & Development
Sarah Van der Auweraer
PhD title: Spare part inventory management using ServiceMaintenance information
28 October 2019
Supervisor: Prof. dr. Robert Boute
Current position: Postdoctoral Researcher, University ofLuxembourg, Luxembourg Centre for Logistics and SupplyChain Management
Anthony Simonofski
PhD title: Citizen Participation in e-Government:Management Tools Development
21 November 2019
Supervisor: Prof. dr. Monique Snoeck, Prof. dr. Naji Habra, Université de Namur
Co-supervisor: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Namur
Deniz AkincAbdulhayoglu
PhD title: Contributions to the design and the analysis of choice experiments
6 December 2019
Supervisor: Prof. dr. Martina Vandebroek
Faruk HasićPhD title: Decision-aware information systems: a systemsmodelling perspective bridging decisions and processes
12 May 2020
Supervisor: Prof. dr. Estefanía Serral Asensio
Co-supervisor: Prof. dr. Monique Snoeck
Current position: FWO Postdoctoral Researcher, KU Leuven
: [email protected] [email protected]
Guopeng Song
PhD title: New models and algorithms for resource loadingand parallel machine scheduling
2 December 2019
Supervisor: Prof. dr. Roel Leus
Co-supervisor: Prof. dr. Jeroen Belien
Current position: Lecturer, National University of DefenseTechnology, China
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DECISION SCIENCES AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
Jing Zhou
PhD title: High dimensional quantile regression: compositeestimation and model averaging
25 May 2020
Supervisor: Prof. dr. Gerda Claeskens
Current position: FWO Postdoctoral Researcher, KU Leuven
Ben Hermans
PhD title: Optimizing search, monitoring and secrecy: new models and algorithms
27 May 2020
Supervisor: Prof. dr. Roel Leus
Co-supervisor: Prof. dr. Bart Van Looy
Current position: FWO Postdoctoral Researcher, KU Leuven
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Sebastian RojasGonzalez
PhD title: Multi-objective simulation optimization
29 May 2020
Supervisor: Prof. dr. Inneke Van Nieuwenhuyse
Co-supervisor: Prof. dr. Jeroen Belien
Current position: FWO Postdoctoral Researcher, KU Leuven/ UGhent / UHasselt
: [email protected] [email protected]
Joren Gijsbrechts
PhD title: Inventory Control in the Era of Data Analytics
18 August 2020
Supervisor: Prof. dr. Robert Boute
Current position: Assistant Professor, Católica LisbonSchool of Business and Economics
Philip Rogiers
PhD title: Essays on the Future of Employee Mobility
3 September 2020
Supervisor: Prof. dr. Stijn Viaene
Co-supervisor: Prof. dr. Jan Leysen, Koninklijke MilitaireSchool (KMS)
Current position: Postdoctoral Researcher, KU Leuven
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DECISION SCIENCES AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
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MANAGEMENT, STRATEGY AND INNOVATION
Helena Kreuter
PhD title: The politics of globalization
11 July 2019
Supervisor: Prof. dr. Dirk Czarnitzki
Co-supervisors: Prof. dr. Massimo Riccaboni, IMT forAdvanced Studies, Lucca and Dr. Guglielmo Barone, Bank of Italy
Current position: Research Assistant, FiFo Institute forPublic Economics in Cologne (Germany)
Pegah Haji MirzaHossein Khoshnevis
PhD title: Evaluation of research, technology developmentand innovation using data envelopment analysis
14 October 2019
Supervisor: Prof. dr. Peter Teirlinck
Co-supervisor: Prof. dr. Eline Poelmans
Current position: Lecturer in Business and Management,De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
Inge Vanessa MariaBehrens
PhD title: Econometric evaluation of high-value patents ina policy context
28 October 2019
Supervisor: Prof. dr. Dirk Czarnitzki
Current position: Researcher, Centre for EuropeanEconomic Research (ZEW), Mannheim, Germany
Annelies Geerts
PhD title: Effective innovation strategies for incumbent firms
20 December 2019
Supervisors: Prof. dr. Bart Van Looy (Supervisor KU Leuven)and Prof. dr. Petra de Weerd-Nederhof (Supervisor UniversiteitTwente)
Current position: Zaakvoerder / owner at Sagesse;stafmedewerker Kennis & Advisering AGION
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MANAGEMENT, STRATEGY AND INNOVATION
Manuel Gigena
PhD title: Essays on the sources and value oftechnological novelty
19 May 2020
Supervisor: Prof. dr. Reinhilde Veugelers
Zoë Imhof
PhD title: A Social-Psychological Perspective on AngelInvestment Decision-Making
19 May 2020
Supervisor: Prof. dr. Veroniek Collewaert
Current position: Doctoral Researcher inEntrepreneurship, Vlerick Business School
Jesse Wursten
PhD title: A comprehensive evaluation of minimum wage policy.
10 August 2020
Supervisor: Prof. dr. Dirk Czarnitzki
Current position: Postdoctoral Researcher, UC Berkeley
Edyta Ewa Korpas
PhD title: Evolution of Collaborative Strategies:Understanding the Value of Brokerage in Research Projectsof Emerging and Developed Market Firms
19 August 2020
Supervisor: Prof. dr. Ernst Verwaal
Co-supervisor: Prof. dr. Filip De Beule
Current position: Governance & Regulations Officer,Financial Risk, ING Bank N.V. in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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MANAGEMENT, STRATEGY AND INNOVATION
Jeroen Mahieu
PhD title: The Returns to Entrepreneurship in the Labor Market
26 August 2020
Supervisor: Prof. dr. Bart Van Looy
Co-supervisor: Prof. dr. Francesca Melillo
Current position: Assistant Professor, DepartmentManagement and Organisation, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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Saeid Vafainia
PhD title: Empirical Investigations on the Effectiveness of Direct Marketing Communications
18 December 2019
Supervisor: Prof. dr. Els Breugelmans
Co-supervisor: Prof. dr. Tammo H.A. Bijmolt,Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Current position: Assistant Professor of Marketing, ESCP Business School, France
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SUSTAINABILITY
Jens Van Engeland
PhD title: Optimization approaches for recyclablemunicipal solid waste collection
14 October 2019
Supervisor: Prof. dr. Simon De Jaeger
Co-supervisors: Prof. dr. Liesje De Boeck, Prof. dr. JohanEyckmans and Prof. dr. Jeroen Belien
Current position: Project Manager, Agentschap Wegenen Verkeer
Irina Bakalova
PhD title: Effective and stable international climate accords
10 December 2019
Supervisor: Prof. dr. Johan Eyckmans
Current position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Universityand HSE University
Lies Huysegoms
PhD title: Sustainability assessment of contaminated siteremediation with emphasis on valuation
26 June 2020
Supervisor: Prof. dr. Valérie Cappuyns
Co-supervisor: Prof. dr. Sandra Rousseau
Current position: Economist/Data-analyst, FSMA
WORK AND ORGANISATION STUDIES
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KathleenVangronsvelt
PhD title: Enacting personal values in the workplace:exploring the social liability of being authentic at work.
1 July 2019
Supervisor: Prof. dr. Anja Van den broeck
Co-supervisor: Prof. dr. Hannes Leroy, ErasmusUniversity Rotterdam, Rotterdam School of Management
Current position: Assistant Professor, AntwerpManagement School; Freelance Consultant
Katrien Vandevelde
PhD title: Not fitting in: Person-environment fit as aparsimonious way in understanding workplace bullying.
3 July 2019
Supervisor: Prof. dr. Elfi Baillien
Co-supervisor: Prof. dr. Guy Notelaers, UniversiteitBergen
Current position: Research Consultant, MonstareconComm. V.
Giverny De Boeck
PhD title: The realization of potential in the workplace: an employer and employee perspective
13 September 2019
Supervisor: Prof. dr. Nicky Dries
Current position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Transformative Work Design, Curtin University
Kaiyu Shao
PhD title: The social impact of international CSR in the global context: developing a normative-sociologicalapproach
3 December 2019
Supervisor: Prof. dr. Maddy Janssens
Current position: Assistant Professor Business School,China University of Law and Political Science
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WORK AND ORGANISATION STUDIES
Yanne Bogaerts
PhD title: Work-nonwork boundary management fit: The importance of perceiving congruence betweenpreference and supplies
17 February 2020
Supervisor: Prof. dr. Rein De Cooman
Co-supervisor: Prof. dr. Sara De Gieter, Vrije UniversiteitBrussel
Current position: Expert beleidsevaluatie, VDAB
Christopher Lennartz
PhD title: Novel Insights on (Hiring) Discrimination: Moral Balancing Effects on the Individual-, Policy- and Observer-Level
20 February 2020
Supervisor: Prof. dr. Karin Proost
Co-supervisor: Prof. dr. Lieven Brebels
Hans Tierens
PhD title: Sharpening the Tools in the Shed: ImprovingStatistical Tools to Model Events
17 August 2020
Supervisor: Prof. dr. Luc Sels
Co-supervisor: Prof. dr. Mike Smet
Current position: Postdoctoral Researcher in AppliedMachine Learning, University of Luxemburg
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Deni Mazrekaj
PhD title: An Economic Perspective on School Dropout
15 November 2019
Supervisor: Prof. dr. Kristof De Witte
Current position: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Oxford
Falco Bargagli Stoffi
PhD title: Essays on Applied Machine Learning
8 July 2020
Supervisors: Prof. dr. Kristof De Witte and MassimoRiccaboni, IMT for Advanced Studies, Lucca
Current position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
Kenneth De Beckker
PhD title: On the role, determinants, and consequences of financial literacy
15 September 2020
Supervisor: Prof. dr. Kristof De Witte
Co-supervisor: Prof. dr. Geert Van Campenhout
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Nele Warrinnier
PhD title: Human capital and economic growth: the role of investment in early skill formation.
10 July 2019
Supervisor: Prof. dr. Johan Swinnen
Co-supervisor: Prof. dr. Scott Rozelle (co-promotor),Stanford University
Current position: Marie Sklodowska-Curie ResearchFellow, Queen Mary University of London, School ofEconomics & Finance
Rob Kuijpers
PhD title: Value chains, technology transfer, food security,and agricultural development
23 December 2019
Supervisor: Prof. dr. Johan Swinnen
Current position: Advisor and Researcher, KIT RoyalTropical Institute, Amsterdam
Hannah Ameye
PhD title: The Economics of Malnutrition
11 September 2020
Supervisor: Prof. dr. Johan Swinnen
Co-supervisor: Prof. dr. Joachim De Weerdt
Current position: Docent Development Economics, KU Leuven
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RESEARCH CENTRE FOR REGIONAL ECONOMICS (VIVES)
JakobVanschoonbeek
PhD title: Good fences make good neighbors: the politicaleconomy of state fragmentation
13 December 2019
Supervisor: Supervisor: Prof. dr. Jozef Konings
Current position: FWO Postdoctoral Researcher, KU Leuven/VIVES
Sander Ramboer
PhD title: Essays on fiscal policy, firm growth and locationdecisions
20 December 2019
Supervisor: Supervisor: Prof. dr. Jozef Konings
Current position: Senior Researcher, VATT Institute forEconomic Research in Helsinki.
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