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- Develop and instruct two master courses: `Regional Integration Analysis’ in the Master `Economics of Globalization and European Integration’ and `International Trade and Migration’ in the Master of Science in Economics.- Provide effective support to students in understanding complex economic concepts and achieving academic success as a supervisor of Ph.D. theses and master dissertations.

- Highly competitive funding acquired from Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) and the National Bank of Belgium (NBB) for a three-year individual research project entitled ``Unobserved Heterogeneity in Technological Change and Dynamic Gains From Trade.'' (project no. 12B8822N).- Present at international conferences and establish collaborations within and across institutions to promote teamwork and knowledge sharing, notably with researchers from the National Bank of Belgium, Aston Business School, Bocconi University, and UNU-CRIS.- Support academic growth within the institution by organizing internal seminar series and reading groups.

Acquired funding for a four-month collaborative economic research project to develop a novel estimation methodology for firm-level productivity using clustering algorithms on confidential micro-level data from the National Bank of Belgium. The project was successfully completed, and the results were communicated through NBB Working Paper no. 428 in 2022 and a software package in R that implements the novel estimation methodology.

- Developed a three-year individual economic research plan with clearly defined intermediate goals and built-in contingencies to attract funding as a postdoctoral researcher from Research Foundation Flanders (FWO). - Provided effective support to students in understanding complex economic concepts and achieving academic success as a supervisor for master dissertations.- Responsible for developing and contributing to bachelor and master courses and a UN simulation game.

- Responsible for developing and contributing to bachelor and master courses aligned with my teaching philosophy based on accessibility, engagement, and practical skill development. For example, I realigned a seminar's theme around a policy-relevant topic and simulated an institutional setting, enabling me to attract additional students and facilitate interaction among them.- Developed and executed economic research projects independently and established collaborations within and across institutions to promote teamwork and knowledge sharing, notably with researchers from the National Bank of Belgium and the Federal Planning Bureau.- Learned to communicate effectively by publishing working papers and presenting my work at international conferences.- Promoted the dissemination of research by developing software applications and replication packages for numerical (analyzing confidential micro-level data and developing novel estimation methodologies in R and Stata) and analytical applications (calibrating quantitative economic models in R and Matlab). - Strived to enhance my knowledge portfolio by pursuing a second master’s degree and following multiple Ph.D. courses in economics and statistics.- Supported academic growth within the institution by organizing external seminar series and reading groups.