The team (authors of atlas.brussels)


Main authors of atlas.brussels

Olivier Finance

Geographer, Post-doc at UCLouvain (Center for Operations Research and Econometrics) in the Bru-Net project.

In charge of the development of atlas.brussels website and more specifically of the interactive tool combining previous and on-going works based on community detection in and around Brussels.

Complete vitae

Arnaud Adam

Geographer, PhD student at UCLouvain (Center for Operations Research and Econometrics), specifically working on “a new geography of interactions in and around the metropolitan area of Brussels”.

Authored and computed most of the contents included in the interactive tool, notably the partitions based on community detection algorithms.


Initiators and supervisors of the Bru-Net project

Isabelle Thomas
Geographer, FRS-FNRS Research Director at Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (Institute for Multidisciplinary Research in Quantitative Modelling and Analysis) and Professor at the School of Geography at UCLouvain. Co-initiator and co-supervisor of the project.

Jean-Charles Delvenne
Engineer, Professor at the Louvain School of Engineering and at the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Electronics and Applied Mathematics. Co-supervisor of the project.

Vincent Blondel
Engineer, Professor at the Louvain School of Engineering and at the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Electronics and Applied Mathematics. Co-initiator of the project.


Other main researchers having contributed to the project

Gaëtan Montero
Geographer, PhD student and Teaching Assistant at UCLouvain (Center for Operations Research and Econometrics & Ecole de Géographie). Measuring and understanding the morphology of urban space are the main goals of his research.

Adeline Decuyper
Mathematician, former member of the project.

Christophe Cloquet
Physicist, former member of the project.

Jonathan Jones
Geographer, former member of the project.