(Multidimensional) inequality, poverty, and welfare measurement
Well-being measurement and respect for preferences
Multivariate dependence and the copula
Successful aging and old-age well-being comparisons
Driving forces of changing income distributions
Evaluation of socio-economic and well-being policies
Citations according to Google scholar
Profile on Research Gate
Associate Editor, Social Choice and Welfare (2020 - ).
Associate Editor, Jounal of Economic Inequality (2019 - ).
Guest Editor, Research on Economic Inequality, vol. 27 (Jointly with Philippe Van Kerm).
Member of Editorial Board, Review of Income and Wealth (2018 - ).
Member of Editorial Board, SHARE Blog (2018 - 2019).
Reviewing for: American Economic Review; Annals of Economics and Statistics; Applied Research in Quality of Life; Canadian Journal of Economics; Econometric Reviews; Econometrica; Economica; Economic Journal; Economic Modelling; Economic Theory; Economics and Philosophy; Economics Letters; Ethics; European Economic Review; Health Economics; International Economic Review; International Journal of Social Economics; Journal of Applied Econometrics; Journal of Demographic Economics; Journal of Development Economics; Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization; Journal of Economic Theory; Journal of Economic Inequality; Journal of Economic Surveys; Journal of the European Economic Association; Journal of Human Development; Journal of Mathematical Economics; Journal of Political Economy; Journal of Public Economics; Journal of Public Economic Theory; Mathematical Social Sciences; Oxford Economic Papers; Politics, Philosophy and Economics; PLOS One; Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance; Regional Studies; Review of Income and Wealth; Scandinavian Journal of Economics; Social Choice and Welfare; Social Indicators Research; Regional Studies; Technological and Economic Development of Economy; World Bank Economic Review; World Development; and others.
2025: Workshop (Paris School of Economics); 2024: Keynote (Statec, Luxembourg) , Seminar (London School of Economics); 2023: Workshop (UAB - Barcelona), Workshop (Paris School of Economics); 2022: Seminar (Valladolid), Workshop (Leuven), Workshop (Paris School of Economics), Planbureau Netherlands (online Keynote); 2021: Annual Conference Institute for Future Studies (oneline), Workshop Multidimensional Poverty Ingrid 2 (online) 2020: CSB Seminar (UA - online), JRC seminar (Ispra - online), Belgian Day of Welfare Economics (Namur) 2019: Seminar Université Libre de Bruxelles, Workshop Inequality (Statistics Norway), ECINEQ (Paris), IAGG-ER (Gothenburg, Sweden), Workshop Measuring Well-being (Brussels), Workshop Prioritarianism in Practice (University of Bergen, Norway) 2018: University of Sheffield, Duke University, University of Leuven (HUB), Seminar (Umea, Sweden), IT13 (Canazei, Italy); 2017: Econ@UA seminar (Antwerp), Workshop Freedom and Well-being (Leuven), IWSEA workshop (Lisbon), Share Users Workshop (Antwerp), Workshop Prioritarianism in Practice (Duke University), Workshop (Aix-en-Provence, France), Lecture (Hebrew University, Jerusalem), Seminar (ILO/Univ. of Geneva), Seminar (University of Namur); Seminar (University Leuven); Seminar (Oxford University); Seminar (University of Aberdeen); Seminar choice group (LSE); Workshop Composite Indicators (Brussels), ASSA (Chicago); 2016: OPHI workshop (Oxford University), Seminar (University of Clermont Ferrand), Workshop Poverty and Well-being (Louvain-la-Neuve), WDR06 anniversary conference (World Bank, Washington), CORE@50 (Louvain-la-Neuve),Workshop Risk, Fairness, and Well-being (Leuven), University of Luxembourg, CHW (Princeton); 2015: SEA (New Orleans), EQUIRISK workshop (Paris), ECINEQ (Luxembourg), Workshop (Uppsala), Seminar (Montpellier), Workshop (Marseille), Duke University (Durham, US), FMSH workhop (Paris); 2014: University of Southern Denmark (Odense, Denmark), Infometrics (Wahsington, US); JRC training (Ispra, Italy); University of Verona (Verona), University of Geneva (Geneva), Capabitaly conference (Rome), World Bank (Washington, US), MacMaster University (Canada), UNDP (New York, US), OUP Workshop 2 (Princeton University, US), CSB (Antwerp), University of Essex (Colchester); 2013: EQUIRISK workshop(FMSH, Paris), CEREC workshop (FUSL, Brussels), OUP Workshop (Duke University, US), Improve Conference (Brussels), ICESI (Cali, Colombia), Workshop (UA, Antwerp), ECINEQ (Bari), FMSH workhop (Paris), GIZ/UNDP workshop(Frankfurt), CAGE Workshop (Warwick), Workshop HID2 (PSE, Paris), University of Sussex (Brighton), Workshop multiple dimension of inequality (Marseille), IT8 (Canazei, Italy); 2012: Colloquium on Beyond GDP (Senate, Brussels) EQUALSOC(Stockholm), JLAGV11 (Marseille), Department of Economics (Antwerp), PORESP Workshop (Louvain-la-Neuve), Verona (Italy), CSB (Antwerp), CORE (Louvain-la-Neuve), CES(PE) (Leuven), ODI (London), IZA (Bonn), FMSH (Paris), IT7 (Canazei, Italy); 2011: CSB (Antwerp), GINI (Antwerp), IZA (Bonn), ECINEQ (Catania), New Directions in Welfare Economics (Paris), CES(PE) (Leuven), CORE (Louvain-la-Neuve), IT6 (Canazei, Italy); 2010: IDEP (Marseille), CEPS/INSTEAD (Differdange, Luxemburg), SSCW10 (Moscow), Paristech JET conference on inequality and risk (Paris), JLAGV9 (Marseille), Verona (Italy), SIS (Antwerp), UNDP consultation (Rabat, Morocco), IT5 (Canazei, Italy); 2009: CORE (Louvain-la Neuve), CSB(Antwerp), ECINEQ (Buenos Aires), New Directions in Welfare Economics (Oxford), OPHI (Oxford), IT4 (Canazei, Italy); 2008: SSCW9 (Montreal), OPHI (Oxford); 2007: CES(PE) (Leuven), ECINEQ (Berlin), World bank (Washington, US), IT2(Canazei, Italy); 2006: SSCW8 (Istanbul), SMYE (Seville), CES(PE) (Leuven); 2004: CES(PE) (Leuven).
Workshop "Measuring Individual Well-being" at ULB on 20-21 May 2019 (Organized jointly with Bram De Rock and François Maniquet).
Workshop "What drives inequality?" at University of Luxembourg on 18-19 October 2018 (Organized jointly with Philippe Van Kerm and Emilia Toczydlowska).
Workshop "SHARE users Workshop" at University Antwerp on 19 October 2017 (Organized jointly with Tim Goedemé, Karel Van den Bosch, and Sergio Perelman).
Workshop "Risk, fairness and well-being" at University of Leuven on 19-20 May 2016 (Organized jointly with Francois Maniquet, Erwin Ooghe, and Andreas Peichl).
Workshop "Well-being, preferences and discrete choice experiments" at University Antwerp on 19 December 2014 (Organizer).
Workshop "Equality of opportunity versus Equality of outcomes: facts and values" at University Antwerp on 26 - 27 September 2013 (Organized jointly with Bea Cantillon, Erik Schokkaert, and Wim Van Oorschot).
Session in conference "New Directions in Welfare Economics" at OECD (Paris) on 3-5 July 2013 (Session organizer).
Workshop "Equality of opportunity: from principles to policy" at University Antwerp on 16 November 2012 (Organizer).
Workshop "Multidimensional poverty and inequality measurement" at CORE on 29-30 May 2012 (Organized jointly with Francois Maniquet and Erwin Ooghe).
Member of the Executive Board of The Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ), elected 2019 - .
Member of the Advisory Board of The NN National Happiness Project of the University of Ghent, 2019 - .
Member of the Advisory Board of The Price Raymond Derine (for a doctoral dissertation on social justice), 2018, 2020.
Member of the Expert Panel of the Flemish Agency for People with a Disability (VAPH), 2018 - .
Member of the UNDP Statistical Advisory Panel of the Human Development Report 2016 and Human Development Report 2020.