2026 Job Market Candidates
We are excited to present Ghent University’s Econ job market candidates for the current academic year. Placement coordinators are Yasin Kürşat Önder and Luis Rocha.
Detailed information about the candidates and their references is readily available upon request. Send your mail to info.eb21@ugent.be.
Nikolaos Koutounidis
Empirical Macroeconomics
Household Economics & Finance
Energy Economics (Oil & Gas)
Regional Economics
Marta Maria Pisa
Empirical Macroeconomics
Climate Economics
Energy Economics (Gas & Electricity)
Weather Variability and Commodity Markets (Gas and Food)
Jilong Wu
Cognitive economics
Behavioral economics
Experimental economics
Risk and ambiguity attitudes
2025 Placement Results
Lara Coulier – European Central Bank (Economics Graduate Programme Participant)
Mathieu Simoens – Ghent University (Post-Doc)
Christophe Van Langenhove - Free University Brussels (VUB, Assistant Professor of Macroeconomics)
Jose Villegas – Central Bank of Mexico (Research Economist)
Christian Walter – University of Vechta (Post-Doc)