beamm.brussels is built and maintained by the Center for Applied Public Economics (CAPE) at UCLouvain Saint-Louis – Bruxelles — an interdisciplinary team of economists, data scientists, and software engineers making rigorous fiscal-policy analysis openly accessible, free of charge, to policy-makers, civil society, and the citizens of the Brussels-Capital Region.
Co-Director
Tom is a professor of public economics at the UCLouvain Saint-Louis - Bruxelles. He is director of the Center for Applied Public Economics (CAPE) and a member of the Center for Research in Economics (CEREC). Tom’s research interests are in public economics, data science, tax design, transport economics and environmental economics. Former research topics include game theory, auction theory and economic history.
Co-Director
Hélène is assistant professor in Economics at the UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles, as well as Chargée de Recherche CNRS. She obtained her PhD in Economics and Management Sciences from the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL) in 2010. She is currently director of the Center for Economic Research (CEREC), and member of the Center for Applied Public Economics (CAPE). Her domains of expertise are Macroeconomics, International Economics and Economic Growth.
Director of AI & Data Science Research
Cedric Heuchenne holds a Master’s degree in Applied Sciences and a Ph.D. in Statistics from the Catholic University of Louvain (2005). He is now working as a Statistics/Data Science professor at the University of Liège. His research concerns different applied and theoretical fields like survival or duration data analysis, nonparametric statistical inference, machine learning, statistical process control, anomaly detection, quality management, or risk modeling.
Professor of Economics
Koen is an Assistant Professor in Economics at UCLouvain – Saint-Louis Bruxelles. He obtained his PhD in 2016 at KU Leuven. After his PhD, he continued as a postdoctoral researcher at KU Leuven and UCLouvain.
Professor of Economics
Gilles holds a Ph.D. from the UCLouvain (2010). He then obtained a post-doc scholarship from the FNRS and is now assistant professor at University Saint-Louis-Bruxelles since 2016. He is a member of the Center for Applied Public Economics (CAPE) and the Center for Research in Economics (CEREC).
Software Engineering Lead
Callum is turning BEAMM into a reliable, professional-grade platform — leading and coordinating its software engineering across the cloud infrastructure, the core engine, and the in-development synthetic-data pipeline that will power future releases.
He also helps shape how the team works, establishing the shared development practices, documentation, and collaborative culture that hold a multidisciplinary group of economists, statisticians, and engineers together.
Before BEAMM, Callum earned a PhD in Cognitive Science from the University of Leeds (UK) studying computational perception and motor control, and worked at The Alan Turing Institute (UK) as a research data scientist on data privacy, synthetic data, and digital identity. He brings a product-orientated approach to building dependable, data-driven software systems.
Postdoctoral Researcher — Labour Economics
Natalia is a postdoctoral researcher in labor economics at UCLouvain Saint-Louis Brussels. She holds an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s degree in Quantitative Economics from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and UCLouvain and obtained her PhD from UCLouvain and Ghent University. Her research interests include microeconometrics and labor economics.
Postdoctoral Researcher — Synthetic Data
Hugues Annoye is a researcher in statistics and machine learning. He holds a PhD in science from UCLouvain, after completing a thesis in statistics titled - Statistical matching and data generation - under the supervision of Cédric Heuchenne. Hugues also holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and two research master’s degrees (one in mathematics and one in statistic), all from UCLouvain. His research interests include statistics and data science, particularly statistical matching and synthetic data creation.
Postdoctoral Researcher — Statistics and Quantitative Economics
Alexandre holds a double Master’s degree in Economics from UCLouvain and Bocconi University (Milan), and a Master’s degree in Statistics from UCLouvain. He defended his PhD thesis in Statistics in June 2023, entitled « Lorenz regressions, a statistical contribution to the quantification of explained inequality ». Alexandre joined CAPE as postdoctoral researcher and member of the TAXFAM project in September 2023. He is mainly interested in the development of statistical procedures to better quantify and evaluate socioeconomic inequality.
Postdoctoral Researcher — Statistics
Antoine Soetewey is a postdoctoral researcher in statistics at UCLouvain Saint-Louis Brussels and HEC Liège. He contributes to the Beamm project, which focuses on economic policy simulation, and the ODALON - Open multimodal Data for Automated Local News - project, which leverages data science to enhance journalism and enable the partial automation of local news. Antoine obtained his PhD in statistics from UCLouvain, focusing on survival analysis and biostatistical methods applied to cancer patients. He also holds a Master in Economics from KU Leuven and a Master in Econometrics from Maastricht University. His research interests include bio-statistics, data science, and the development of methods to analyze complex datasets. Passionate about making statistics accessible to everyone, Antoine leverages open-source statistical programming languages like R to democratize the use and understanding of statistical tools.
Postdoctoral Researcher — Labour Economics
Francesco obtained his PhD in Economics from the UCLouvain. His research interests are: Labor Economics and Economic Geography.
Doctoral Researcher
Daniel Coppens d’Eeckenbrugge holds a Bachelor’s in business engineering from the UCLouvain and a double Master’s degree in economics and political sciences from the Economics School of Louvain (UCLouvain) & the University of Milan (UNIMI).
Daniel’s research interests are mainly about public economy issues. He is currently orienting his research project towards tax-benefit systems and their distributional impacts through taxation.
Doctoral Researcher
Rory holds an Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters Degree in Quantitative Economics from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, UCLouvain, and Ca' Foscari University of Venice. After graduating, Rory began to work at University Saint-Louis-Bruxelles as a full-time teaching assistant with plans to complete his PhD in Economics. His research interests are focused on but not limited to labor and public economics, more specifically the labor market conditions in the gig economy.
Doctoral Researcher
Jean Paul Madrigal holds a Master in Economics, with an emphasis on Public Intervention, from the Université Catholique de Louvain. He has worked in applied research for the Mexican Association of Pension Funds, as well as in more academic settings such as El Colegio de México and the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research - LISER.
Taxation Specialist
Maxime holds a Bachelor’s degree in economics and business management, a Master’s degree in management sciences, a Master’s degree in law, and a specialized Master’s degree in tax law, all obtained from the University of Liège. He contributes to the Beamm project as a taxation specialist. In addition to this role, he is a teaching and research assistant at the University of Liège’s Tax Institute, with a particular focus on family taxation.
Doctoral Researcher
Aron holds a Master’s degree in Economics from KULeuven (2024) and a joint Master’s degree in Civil Engineering from VUB and ULB (2019). He has worked in the dredging industry, in secondary education and worked as an intern in the development of the microsimulation model EUROMOD at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Seville. Throughout his academic life, Aron was active in multiple non-profit organizations such as OSD VUB and IAESTE and he is presently secretary of VC Zavath. His research interests lie in public economics, tax-design, policy evaluation and political economy.
Doctoral Researcher
Astrid graduated with honors from a Master in Economics at the Université Catholique de Louvain in 2020 and from a Bachelor in Economics and Management with an Architecture minor in 2018. During her Master, she participated in the Erasmus+ Program for one semester at the Bocconi University in Milan. Her research interests are public economics and more precisely mobility and its impacts on the population. She also has experience in Spending Reviews.
Doctoral Researcher
Emilia completed her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Economics and Management at UNamur. She started her PhD in Economics in 2021. Her research interests include health economics, social health protection, income inequalities, and disability.
Doctoral Researcher
Laure holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and management from Saint-Louis University Brussels and a double master’s degree in Economics from the Economics School of Louvain (UCLouvain) and from Maastricht University. She started a PhD in October 2023 and joined cape in September 2024. Her research interests are public and labor economics.
Doctoral Researcher
Léa Jacquet holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Engineering and a Master’s degree in Data Science and Statistics from UCLouvain. During her Master’s program, she studied at McGill University in Montreal for one semester, gaining valuable international experience. Throughout her academic journey, Léa was actively involved in organizations such as AIESEC and Alterékot. In September 2023, she began to work as a full-time research assistant with plans to pursue a PhD in economics. Her research interests lie in family economics, public economics, and econometrics.
Doctoral Researcher
Soufiane holds a master’s degree in business engineering from ULB (Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management) and an AESS from the same institution. After completing his master’s, Soufiane worked in secondary education before joining the University of Saint-Louis-Brussels.
Doctoral Researcher
Tom earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from Saint-Louis University in Brussels and a master’s degree in economics from UCLouvain. Subsequently, he combined a teaching assistant role in economics at UCLouvain while pursuing a master’s degree in statistics at the same institution. His research interests include public economics and family economics.
Doctoral Researcher
François Meuwissen holds a Bachelor’s degree in business engineering from the UCLouvain and a double Master’s degree in economics and political sciences from the Economics School of Louvain (UCLouvain) & the University of Milan (UNIMI). His research interests are mainly about public economy issues.
Doctoral Researcher
Thaddée holds two Master degrees in Economics and Data Science from Université Libre de Bruxelles. He has worked several years as an economist for trade unions and as a statistician in the Public Employment Service of the Brussels’ region. He joined CAPE in 2025 and is pursuing a PhD with interests in quantitative methods.
Administrative manager
Julie is the administrative manager of the Center for Applied Public Economics (CAPE) and of the Center for Research in Economics (CEREC).
BEAMM has been built by many hands over the years. We thank everyone who has given their time to the project — their work is part of its foundation.
Doctoral Researcher
Antoine studied civil engineering and economic sciences at UCLouvain. After a first professional experience at at McKinsey & Company, he started a round-the-world bicycle expedition. Back home, he joined the CEREC as a teaching assistant and PhD student in public economics.
Postdoctoral Data Scientist
Alessandro holds a Master’s degree in Business and Finance from the Università Cattaneo and a PhD from HEC Liège in Economics and Management, with a focus on quantitative methods. His research focused on statistical Machine Learning: classification, regression and clustering techniques (linear models, Neural Networks, Support Vector Machines, Random Forests). On the Beamm project, Alessandro was one of the core developers.
Doctoral Data Scientist
Carlos obtained a bachelor degree in mathematics from the University of Santiago de Compostela and a European master’s degree in Quantitative Economic Methods and Models from Paris 1 and Ca' Foscari University. After working as a consultant, Carlos joined the Beamm project as a data scientist working on our machine learning algorithms.
Doctoral Researcher
David obtained a Master’s degree in Economics and Management of Government and International Organizations from Bocconi University, and joined CAPE in March 2020 as a developer, researcher and PhD candidate. David successfully defended his doctoral dissertation in September 2025, and currently works as a senior researcher at the Institute for Social and Economic Studies at the University of Essex.
Doctoral Researcher
Ida-Marie holds a Master’s degree in Economics and Management from Aarhus University. In team beamm, her work has focussed on the machine learning algorithms for statistical matching, and on coding parts of the tax-benefit system.
Researcher — Vehicle Taxation
Christophe holds a Master’s degree in Economics from UCLouvain and a Master’s degree in Transport Economics from Leeds University. In team beamm, Christophe has mainly be working on vehicle taxation. Christophe was also one of the main developers of CoCaTax, a microsimulation model of the fiscal treatment of company cars.
Research Assistant
Nhi received her degree of PFIEV program in Telecommunications at Hochiminh City University of Technology, which is equivalent to Master’s degree. After graduating, she worked as a Python developer and a researcher before joining the BEAMM project in August 2021 as a research assistant. Her research interests are: data mining, anomaly detection, explainable machine learning.
Doctoral Researcher
Mathilde Pourtois holds a Bachelor’s in Economics and Management with a minor in Political Sciences from UCLouvain. She also has a double Master’s degree in Economics from the Economic School of Louvain (UCLouvain) and Maastricht University. After her studies, she worked for a year as a research assistant in the field of Regional Public Finances at the University of Namur. In 2019, she began her PhD in Applied Labor Economics at IRES (UCLouvain). She joined CAPE in September 2023 with plans to complete her PhD in Economics there. Her research interests include labor economics, education economics, policy evaluation (studying both intended and unintended effects of policies) and public finances.
Doctoral Researcher
Audric holds a Master’s degree in Economics from the ESL (UCLouvain). Prior to that, he was a student of the University Saint-Louis-Bruxelles. He had the chance to study abroad in Vienna and in Québec. He also enjoyed the student life as a member of Alterékot (kot-à-projet in Louvain-la-Neuve).
Expertise in fiscal law and Belgian fiscal institutions.
Pioneers of Belgian microsimulation; joint work on the income-tax engine and labour-market modelling.
