Scientific collaborations


In a perspective of multidisciplinary openness, the Smart City Institute makes a point of collaborating with various experts from the academic sphere in the framework of its research.

University of Liège Faculties

Catherine Elsen    Associate professor, LUCID - Faculty of Architecture of the University of Liege
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Catherine Elsen is an Associate Professor at University of Liège (ULiege – Belgium) and Research Affiliate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA). She received her PhD in Engineering Sciences in 2011 (ULiege), a Master in Social Sciences in 2009 (CNAM, Paris), and a MS degree in Architecture and Building Engineering in 2007 (ULiege). Her research interests cover design processes (in architecture and industrial design), and more specifically the impact design tools and methods have on specific cognitive processes (integration of end-users’ needs; creativity; cooperation between team members). She lately developed special interest in Experience Design, researching it with the intent to develop innovative methods and tools in order to streamline its process.
 

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Pierre Delvenne    FNRS Qualified Researcher and Deputy Director of the SPIRAL Research Centre at the University of Liège
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Pierre Delvenne 
Pierre Delvenne holds a Ph.D. in Political and Social Sciences. He is currently a Research Associate of the Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS) and the Associate Director of the SPIRAL research centre at the University of Liège, where he coordinates the research unit in science, technology, and society.
 

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Guénaël Devillet    Senior Lecturer and Director of SEGEFA (Study Department in Economic Geography) at the University of Liège
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Guénaël Devillet, PhD, is a geographer and urbanist. He’s teaching at University of Liège. He is the director of the SEGEFA (economic geography) where he leads and supervises studies in areas such as the location of economic activities, impact studies and geomarketing and sustainable development of territories. He has developed an expertise in the domain of territorial intelligence and he is member of INTI (International network of territorial intelligence).
 

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Damien Ernst    Professor and researcher at the Montefiore Institute of Electrical and Engineering and Computer Science Research Unit at the University of Liège
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Damien Ernst 

Damien Ernst is a computer engineer at the Faculty of Applied Sciences, and a researcher at the Montefiore Institute of Electrical and Engineering and Computer Science Research Unit.
Known for his research in the field of artificial intelligence and the Global Grid, his scientific work has been published in two books, twelve book chapters, more than fifty journal articles, and approximately 150 conference proceedings. In 2018, Damien Ernst received the Blondel Medal, a prestigious award granted by the Société de l'Électricité, de l'Électronique et des Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication (SEE) that recognizes a remarkable research career in the field of engineering sciences.

 

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Jacques Teller    Professor and Director of LEMA (Local Environment Management and Analysis), ArGEnCo department of the University of Liège
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Jacques Teller 
Jacques Teller is a professor of urban planning at the University of Liege and director of LEMA (Local Environment Management and Analysis) a research team dedicated to urban planning in the ArGEnCo department of the University of Liege.
 

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HEC Liege - Management School of the University of Liège

Sabine Limbourg    Professor in transport, logistics and supply chain management at HEC Liège
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Sabine Limbourg 
Sabine Limbourg is a professor in transport, logistics and supply chain management at HEC Liege. Her research, strongly related to European transport policy for sustainable development, has led to the improvement of decision support systems for freight transportation planning. It focusses on establishing links between advanced operations management and the needs of both enterprises and communities. She is also involved in several multidisciplinary research projects.
 

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Anne-Christine Cadiat    Assistant Lecturer in Marketing at HEC Liège
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Anne-Christine Cadiat, Assistant Lecturer in Marketing at HEC Liège, studies and teaches place branding and marketing. She works with the City of Liège on this subject and writes case studies that are used to develop students skills in that field.
 

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Cécile Delcourt    Associate professor at HEC Liège
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Cecile Delcourt 
Dr. Cécile Delcourt is an Associate Professor in Marketing & Services Management. Her research and teaching interests are the management of the customer experience and of customer-centric organizations, change of business models (functional economy, sharing economy, from a product to a service orientation for sustainable performance), relationship marketing, and consumer behavior. She holds a Ph.D. in Management Science from Radboud University (Nijmegen, the Netherlands) and HEC-ULg. Within HEC Liège, Professor Delcourt is the Head of the Master Program in “Marketing & Strategic Intelligence” and co-directed the Chair in Strategic Intelligence supported by “Agence de Stimulation Economique” (ASE).
 

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Benjamin Huybrechts    Lecturer at HEC Liège
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Prof. Benjamin Huybrechts is Associate Professor at HEC Management School, University of Liege (Belgium), where he holds the SRIW-Sowecsom Chair in Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation. His research topics include novel hybrid organizational forms in the area of social enterprise, the emergence and diffusion of social innovation, and cross-sector partnerships and networks, all of which are studied in fields such as fair trade, recycling and renewable energy.
 

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Ashwin Ittoo    Professor at HEC Liège
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Dr. Ashwin Ittoo specializes in Natural Language Processing (NLP)/Text Analytics and Machine Learning/Data Mining. His main research interest, in the context of smart cities, are how can Big Data and analytics support smart cities endeavors and how to automatically mine the societal perception of smart cities from social media networks? In addition to being a professor at HEC-ULg, he also sits on the editorial and review boards of several Elsevier journals.
 

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François Pichault    Professor and Director of LENTIC (Laboratory for Studies on New Forms of Work, Innovation and Change) at HEC Liège
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François Pichault, Phd in sociology, is Professor at HEC-Management School (University of Liège, Belgium). He is also an affiliated Professor in human resource management at ESCP-Europe, Paris. He chairs, at the University of Liège, an action-research centre (LENTIC) focussed on human and organizational aspects of change and innovation processes. He published numerous books and papers on organizational change and HRM issues.
 

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