More than 100 PhD students, hosted at LIDAM, graduated over the last years. As shown in the list below, PhD students found interesting jobs in both the public and the private sectors after graduation. LIDAM has also hosted several Post-doc positions.
You will find below a list (non-exhaustive) of placement for the last 7 years. The position mentioned in the list is the position our students found when they left LIDAM and it may differ from their current position.
Contact and more info : lidam.com@uclouvain.be
2024-2025
| Name | Status | Entity | Placement (first job after UCLouvain) | Web |
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| Hugues Annoye | PhD | ISBA | Postdoc at UCLouvain Saint-Louis | Website |
| Luigi Boggian | PhD | IRES | Postdoc at Università di Verona | |
| Keivan Diakité | PhD | ISBA | Data scientist pensions complémentaires pour Sigedis | |
| Robin NG | PhD | CORE | post-doc university of Mannheim | Website |
| Antoine Soetewey | PhD | ISBA | Postdoc at UCLouvain Saint-Louis | Website |
2023-2024
| Name | Status | Entity | Placement (first job after UCLouvain) | Web |
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| Fabrizio Ciotti | PhD | CORE | Belgian Competition Authority | Website |
| PhD | IRES |
Post-doc, EU Tax Observatory (hosted at Paris School of Economics)
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| Younes el Hichou | PhD | LFIN | Risk Modeller, Dexia | |
| PhD | CORE |
Cambridge Econometrics
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| PhD | IRES |
Post-doc, Nova University Lisbon
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Hendrik Scheewel
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PhD | IRES |
GIZ
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| PhD | IRES |
Post-doc, Nova University Lisbon
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2022-2023
| Name | Status | Entity | Placement (first job after UCLouvain) | Web |
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| Pablo Aguilar | PhD | IRES | Senior Economist at Bank of Spain | Website |
| Arno Baurin | PhD | IRES | Junior Associate, McKinsey & Company | |
| Malo Beguin | PhD | LFIN | Data Analyst, Bureau économique de la province de Namur | |
| Sefan Cetin | PhD | CORE | NN Group (Brussels) | |
| Arnaud Deseau | PhD | IRES | Post-doc at AMSE Marseille | Website |
| Dorothee Hillrichs | Post-Doc | IRES | Post-doc at ifo Institute in Munich | Website |
| Cristina Lafuente Martinez | Post-Doc | CORE | Assistant professor at the Economics Department of the University of Bath | Website |
| Quentin Leté | PhD | CORE | Post-doc at ETH Zürich | Website |
| Adam Levai | PhD | IRES | Research Associate at the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) | |
| Francesco Roccazzella | PhD | LFIN | IÉSEG School of Management as Assistant Professor of Finance | Website |
| Daniele Verdini | PhD | IRES | Economist at the National Bank of Belgium | Website |
2021-2022
| Name | Status | Entity | Placement (first job after UCLouvain) |
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| Pablo Alberto Aguilar García | PhD | IRES | Economist, Bank of Spain |
| Douglas Amuli Ibale | PhD | IRES | Catholic University of Bukavu (Democratic Republic of Congo) |
| Marcus Biermann | Post-doc | IRES | Assistant Professor, Bielefeld University |
| Francois Courtoy | PhD | IRES | Economist, European Commission |
| Julien Dewez | PhD | CORE | Transurb |
| Valentin Hamaide | PhD | CORE | R&D Research Expert at IBA |
| Cécile Hautecoeur | PhD | CORE | Associate at B12 Consulting |
| Keiti Kondi | PhD | IRES | Post-doc at IRES |
| Elsa Leromain | Post-doc | IRES | Assistant Professor, University of Antwerp |
| Adam Levai | PhD | IRES | Post-doc at LISER (Luxembourg) |
| Nathalie Lucas | PhD | ISBA | Prudential Supervision Insurance at National Bank of Belgium |
| Angelo Luisi | PhD | LFIN | Post-doc at Ghent University |
| Rubens Moura | PhD | LFIN | Bank of Mexico |
| Francesco Pascucci | PhD | IRES | Post-Doctoral Researcher at University Saint-Louis, Brussels |
| Erika Pini | PhD | CORE | Economist/Analyst, Oxera (private) |
| Prabal Shrestha | PhD | LFIN | Assistant Professor at Pôle Leonard de Vinci Paris |
| Jonas Striaukas | PhD | LFIN | Assistant Professor at Copenhague Business School |
| Aleksandar Todorovic | PhD | LFIN | Reporting Officer at LRI Invest SA (Luxembourg) |
| Linqi Wang | PhD | LFIN | Post-doc at University of Cambridge |
| Jean-Charles Wijnandts | PhD | LFIN | Bank of England |
2020-2021
| Name | Status | Entity | Placement (first job after UCLouvain) |
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| Gilles Bertrand | PhD | CORE | Conseiller, CREG |
| Fabio Blasutto | PhD | IRES | Assistant Professor at Department of Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics |
| Boris Chafwehé | PhD | IRES | Economist JRC European Commission (Sevilla, Spain) |
| Baptise Féraud | PhD | ISBA | Senior Statistician, IWEPS (Belgium) |
| Annalisa Frigo | PhD | IRES | Economist, Bank of Italy |
| Paolo Gambetti | PhD | LFIN | Data Scientist at CRIF (Bologna, Italy) |
| Céline Gérard | PhD | CORE | Energy Consultant at N-SIDE |
| Rebecca Marion | PhD | ISBA | Postdoc at UNamur |
| Manon Martin | PhD | ISBA | Logisticien de recherche, UCLouvain (Belgium) |
| Sophie Mathieu | PhD | ISBA | Statistician at OpenAnalytics |
| Ilyes Mezghani | PhD | CORE | Analyst at Engie Impact |
| Gilles Mordant | PhD | ISBA | Postdoc at Göttingen University |
| Pauline Ngugnie Diffouo | PhD | ISBA | Risk Manager , KBC ( Belgium ) |
| Wenli Peng | PhD | CORE | Business Process owner at Carmeuse |
| Fadoua Zeddouk | PhD | ISBA | Actuary , Hanover Re ( Germany ) |
2019-2020
| Name | Status | Entity | Placement (first job after UCLouvain) |
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| Arnaud Adam | PhD | CORE | Geomatician and Data Miner - Viapass |
| Esther Delesalle | Post-doc | IRES | Research and evaluation officer, Conseil d'évaluation de l’École |
| Christophe Desagre | PhD | LFIN | Assistant professor at ICHEC Business School |
| Olivier Finance | Post-doc | CORE | Maître de conférences à l'Université de Strasbourg | Faculté de Géographie et d'Aménagement | Laboratoire Image Ville Environnement. |
| Léandro Garcia Barrado | Post-doc | ISBA | Research Biostatistician, IDDI (Belgique) |
| Yu Guan | Post-doc | CORE | Technology Planning & Cooperation Manager at Huawei |
| Dimitra Kyriakopoulou | Post-doc | CORE | Assistant Professor at Department of Economics, University of Athens |
| Nathan Lassance | PhD | LFIN | Assistant professor at UCLouvain |
| Leonardo Madio | Post-Doc | CORE | PostDoc at Toulouse School of Economics |
| Cheikh Mbaye | PhD | LFIN | Quantitative analyst at ING (Brussels) |
| Juliana Mesén Vargas | PhD | IRES | Professor of Economics at Universidade de Costa Rica |
| Yuting Mou | PhD | CORE | Assistant Professor at South-East University, China |
| Alexandre Ounnas | PhD | IRES | Researcher at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Brussels |
| Florian Pechon | PhD | ISBA | AXA Belgium |
| Valerio Serse | PhD | CORE | Compass Lexecon |
| Wouter Torsin | PhD | LFIN | Assistant Professor at Université de Liège |
| Sonia Trabelsi | PhD | CORE | Geomatician – Belgian federal Police |
| Riccardo Turati | PhD | IRES | Assistant Professor at the Department of Applied Economics at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona |
| Stefanija Veljanoska | Post-doc | IRES | Assistant Professor at Department of Economics at Université de Rennes |
2018-2019
| Name | Status | Entity | Placement (first job after UCLouvain) |
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| Maïlis Amico | PhD | ISBA | Biostatistician, Alten Switzerland AG (Suisse) |
| Joris Chau | PhD | ISBA | Statistican at OpenAnalytics |
| Mickaël De Backer | PhD | ISBA | Postdoc UCLouvain, then IDDI |
| Justin Delloye | PhD | CORE | Attaché statisticien à Statbel (Direction générale Statistique – Statistics Belgium) |
| Cyrille Dossougoin | PhD | CORE | Consultant Data Science at Capgemini Financial Services, Belgium |
| Dalal Moosa | PhD | IRES | Economist at the World Bank |
| Pauline Morault | Post-Doc | IRES | Assistant Professor at Cergy-Pontoise University |
| Risa Pavia | PhD | CORE | Data scientist by Python Predictions (Brussels) |
2017-2018
| Name | Status | Entity | Placement (first job after UCLouvain) |
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| Andreu Arenas | Post-Doc | CORE | Assistant prof U Barcelona (On leave 2021-22 Princeton University ) |
| Antoine Barbieri | Post-Doc | ISBA | Postodoc INSERM Paris (France) |
| Emeline Bezin | Post-Doc | IRES | CNRS Research Fellow |
| Vincent Bremhorst | PhD | ISBA | Statistical Consultant at SMCS |
| Christoph Deuster | PhD | IRES | Junior professional officer at the Population division of the United Nations |
| Mery Ferrando | PhD | CORE | Assistant professor at Tilburg University (The Netherlands) |
| Bartosz Filipecki | PhD | CORE | Post-doc at TUChemnitz |
| Andras Gregor | PhD | CORE | Researcher at Iweps |
| Zainab Iftikhar | PhD | IRES | Postdoctoral fellow at the Goethe University Frankfurt, (Germany) |
| Benoît Martin | PhD | CORE | Energy & Climate Change Consultant at CLIMACT |
| Guzman Ourens | PhD | IRES | Assistant professor at Tilburg University (The Netherlands) |
| Èric Roca Fernández | PhD | IRES | Postdoctoral fellow at Aix-Marseille School of Economics |
| Tommaso Sonno | PhD | IRES | Assistant professor at the University of Bologna |
2016-2017
| Name | Status | Entity | Placement (first job after UCLouvain) |
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| Anthony Bellofatto | PhD | LFIN | Senior Risk & ESG Officer at Arvestar Asset Managment |
| Aurélie Bertrand | PhD | ISBA | Statistical consultant at SMCS |
| Sotiris Blanas | PhD | IRES | Researcher at the BNB-NBB |
| Bastien Chabé-Ferret | Post-doc | IRES | Post-doc University of Essex |
| Benjamin Colling | PhD | ISBA | Postdoc at KU Leuven |
| Samuel Gbari | PhD | ISBA | Private consulting |
| Paula Gobbi | Post-doc | IRES | Assistant Professor at ECARES, Université libre de Bruxelles |
| Lucia Granelli | PhD | IRES | Economist at European Commission |
| Vanessa Lutgen | PhD | IRES | Bureau fédéral du plan Brussels |
| Mehdi Madani | PhD | CORE | Post-Doc at Johns Hopkins University |
| Marion Mercier | Post-doc | IRES | CNRS researcher, LEDa – DIAL, Paris-Dauphine |
| Sara Salomone | Post-doc | IRES | Postdoctoral researcher at UNU-CRIS and Ugent |
| Sylvie Scolas | PhD | ISBA | Senior Statistician, GSK (Belgium) |
| Adrien Taylor | PhD | CORE | Postdoc at INRIA Paris |
| Nathan Uyttendaele | PhD | ISBA | Invited professor @UCLouvain, @ULB, @UNamur, @ULorraine, private consulting, writer, science YouTuber |