Tom is a professor of public economics at the UCLouvain Saint-Louis - Bruxelles. He is the director of the Center for Applied Public Economics (CAPE), co-director of the Institut de Recherches interdisciplinaires sur Bruxelles (IRIB) and a member of the Center for Research in Economics (CEREC). Tom’s research interest are in public economics, data science, tax design, transport economics and environmental economics. Former research topics include game theory, auction theory and economic history.