1974-83 Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

 Research and teaching assistant in regional economics, Centrum voor Economische Studiën (1974-75; 1977-80; 1982-83).

 

1975-76 University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

 Research and teaching assistant, Regional Science Department.

 

1976-77 University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

 Research and Teaching Assistant, Peace Science Department.

 

1983-87 Limburgse Economische Hogeschool, Diepenbeek, Belgium

 Associate Professor: 1983-84 full-time (1984-87 part-time).

 

1984-87 Johns Hopkins’ University Center for Urban and Regional Development, Lille, France

 Associate Director of the “Centre Européen Johns Hopkins”, Université de Lille I, France (with Prof. Jack Dyckman).

 

1989-90 Scientific advisor to the Ministry of Science, Belgium

 

1987-2002 University of Science and Technology, Lille, France

 

• Associate Professor in Economics (1987 – 1994).
  
  
• Prime d'encadrement et de recherche (since May 1990 till today).
  
  
• Organizer of the ERASMUS intensive programmes “Lille-Roubaix-Tourcoing: A Metropolitan Region in the Central Periphery of the European Community“ (1992, 1993) (Erasmus ICP-92-B-1064/02); Faculty coordinator for the ERASMUS networks: ICP B-1064 "Spatial Development" and ICP-UK-3096/14 “Social-scientific Study of Technical Change and Innovation in a European Context”
  
  
• Teaching for the TEMPUS programme. University of Economics, Budapest (February 1993).
  
  
• Scientific coordinator of the international conference "Cities, Enterprises and Society on the Eve of the 21st Century" (Lille 16-18 March 1994; 400 participants).
  
  
• Habilitation à diriger les recherches (since January 1994).
  
  
• Sabbatical leave (first semester of 1994-95).
  
  
• Professor of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Sociology, Université de Lille I (1994-2002).
  
  
• Faculty co-ordinator of the ERASMUS/SOCRATES programme (involving 55 European partner universities) (1996–2000).
  
  
• Head International Ph.D. programme in Regional Development Planning (1996-2002).
  
  
• Vice-dean for international relations (1998-2000).
  
  
• Head of the Bachelor’s Programme in Industrial Economics (2000-2002).
  
  
• Head of the Master’s Programme in Industrial and Labour Economics, and Regional Development Planning (2000-2002).
  
  
• Sabbatical leave (2001-2002).
  
  
• Curator Brugge Culturele Hoofdstad Europa – Cultural Capital of Europe 2002. Section “Poverty, Culture and Urban Renaissance.” (February-April 2002).
  
  
• Coordinator of European Module in Spatial Development Planning (EMSDP) (1998-2002)
  
  
• Three Marie Curie fellowships (1996, 1998, 2002).

 

2002-2007 Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

• Chair in European Planning and Development, Department of Planning.
  
  
• Coordinator of Postgraduate Certificate in European Spatial Planning.
  
  
• Coordinator of Departmental ERASMUS exchanges.
  
  
• Coordinator of the ERASMUS network ‘European Spatial Development Planning’ (+20 members)
  
  
• Leverhulme Foundation Fellowship (October 2006 – September 2007).
  
  
• Visiting Fellow at CRISES, Montreal, Canada (Winter 2006)

 

2008- Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium - Emeritus Professor since 2017.

 

• Professor of Spatial Planning
  
  
• Coordinator, Research Unit for Urban and Regional Planning;
  
  
• Chair of the Leuven Research Centrum ‘Space and Society’;
  
  
• General Coordinator, Policy Research Centre ‘Spatial Planning and Housing’, Flanders;
  
  
• Visiting Professor at School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University, UK (2008-2011)
  
  
• Joint Coordinator (with Stuart Cameron) of Postgraduate Certificate in European Spatial Planning
  
  
• Member of FWO panel on reform of scientific commissions–Science and Technology
  
  
• Research Coordinator, MESHS-CNRS, Lille, France
  
  
• Coordinator (with Jan Schreurs) of IWT-SBO project 'SPINDUS'
  
  
• Coordinator (with Pieter Van den Broeck) of IWT-SBO project 'INDIGO'