Coordinator of the ACROSS DTU
He acts as a Research Program Leader on Crossing Borders at LISER and Affilitaed Professor of Economics at the University of Luxembourg. He has published several books and about 100 papers on the measurement, determinants and consequences of international migration in academic journals.
Coordinator of the ACROSS DTU
Michel is professor of international Economics at UL since 2005. He holds a PhD from the University of Brussels (1997). His main research interests are in international economics and in particular in the field of international human mobility. He has published significant contributions to the field of international migration. His papers have appeared in renowned journals. He has worked as an external advisor in many institutions such as Industry Canada, the World Bank, the European Commission or the Banque de France.
Luisito is Associate Professor in Economics at UL since 2003. He got a PhD in Economics (UCLouvain, 2003). His present research focuses around environmental and development issues. He has made a number of contributions, notably on the impact of climate factors on economic development. His work has been published in a number of renowned journals.
Michal is an economist who specializes in international economics, with a focus on international migration and its impact on labor markets, growth and international trade. He received his PhD from UCLouvain, as a FRS-FNRS research aspirant at IRES (Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales).
Geoffrey holds a Joint Professorship in Urban Analysis and Modelling at UL and LISER since 2017. He is particularly interested in urban forms and urban dynamics and their impact on environmental sustainability and social well-being. As a quantitative geographer, he applies various methods such as spatial statistics, spatial econometrics and geographical Information Systems (GIS) fields. A key specificity of his work relies in bringing more spatial processes and detail in micro-economic based simulation models, through theoretical spatial agent-based models or through more operational land use and transport models.
Arnaud is Professor of Economics at UL since 2016. He studied econometrics and applied economics in Grenoble, France and received a Ph.D. from Maastricht University in 2004. Prior to joining UL, he was an assistant professor and senior researcher at the Maastricht University from 2004 to 2012 and the Head of the Labor market department at LISER from 2013 to 2016. His research focuses on matching and hedonic models, performance inequality, micro-foundations of aggregate production functions and sports economics.
Christina has been a professor of labor economics and political economy at the University of Heidelberg since 2011. She is the designated Head of the Labor Department at LISER and expects to take up her position at LISER starting in 2020. Christina holds a PhD from the University of Chicago. Her main research interests are in labor economics and public economics with a strong interest in interregional and international immigration flows and their economic, social and political consequences.Â
Joel has completed his PhD in Economics in October 2014 at UCLouvain. Before joining LISER as a researcher, he was a FNR-AFR Postdoctoral researcher at CREA, UL, from July 2015 to June 2017. His work uses quantitative and empirical methods to study the causes and consequences of migration as well as the impact of policies on the management of migrant flows and the integration of immigrants in the destination countries.
Chiara is the head of STATEC Research Division. Chiara holds a PhD in Economics from the University of York. She joined STATEC as a senior researcher in April 2011. Chiara is an econometrician with a background in macroeconomic analysis and financial econometrics. She is interested in the application of non-parametric methods to measure productivity and efficiency, and to study policy issues, such as environmental degradation and quality of life. She is engaged in analyzing how welfare is linked to economic outcomes and entrepreneurship.
Pierre is Professor at UL since 2008, after serving as a Senior Lecturer at the University of Manchester (UK) (1999-2008). He has expertise in regional, international and urban economics and economic geography and focuses on the urban location of business and residents and on the principle of free mobility of workers between countries. He was the head the Doctoral School in Economics and Finance up to September 2019.
Cesare is a researcher at STATEC Research. His research interests include innovation, entrepreneurship, standardization economics, and survey methodology. Cesare, who participates in the scientific board of GEM, is responsible for the Luxembourg’s Global Entrepreneurship Monitor project. He holds a PhD in Human, Territory and Society Sciences obtained from the University of Trieste, Italy.
Konstantinos holds a Joint Professorship in Labor Economics at UL and LISER. He received a PhD in Economics from the European University Institute in Florence. His main research interests lie in labor economics and applied micro-econometrics, with particular emphasis on labor market institutions, unemployment dynamics, mobility and inequality. In 2011, he has been acclaimed as Leading Book Series Editors in the Emerald Literati Network 2011 Awards for Excellence.
Michel is a research at LISER. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Namur (Belgium). His is specialized in Development Economics with an emphasis on economics of education and demographic economics. He has designed and implemented impact studies in sub-Saharan Africa and in India. His recent research investigates consequences of population dynamics on (income) inequality dynamics. He has ongoing research project on socio-economic integration of migrants in developed countries.
Francesco is a researcher at STATEC. His work aims at identifying policies to make economic growth compatible with people’s well-being and, ultimately, to pursue sustainable development. He also contributes to methodological survey research. He is member of the World Wellbeing Panel, of the Board of Directors of the International Society for Quality of Life Studies (ISQOLS), and an external expert of Eurofounds.
Bertrand is a researcher and formerly Head of the Labor Market Department at LISER. He received his PhD in Economics at the University of Namur in May 2008. He is a public economist interested in the fields of Labor, Migration and Education. He produces normative analyses on important societal challenges such as the optimal provision of childcare and education, the international mobility of human capital and migrants’ integration.
Skerdilajda is a Full Professor at UL since May 2011. She graduated in Economics Science at the University of Lecce and then completed her PhD in Economics at CORE in 2008 (UCLouvain in cotutelle with the Università degli Studi di Siena). Skerdilajda Zanaj is interested in topics linking the fields of public economics, international economics and industrial organization. Her contributions cover a vast span of areas in economics such as tax competition, migration, nationalism, intergenerational transmission of preferences.