Isabelle Thomas#
| Membership Number: | 4441 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HUMAN MOBILITY, GOVERNANCE, ENVIRONMENT AND SPACE |
| Elected: | 2017 |
| Main Country of Residence: | BELGIUM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.uclouvain.be/isabelle.thomas |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2004 FRS-FNRS Research Director
- Since 2013 Professor (extraordinary), at Université catholique de Louvain)
- 2000 - 2004 FRS-FNRS Senior Research Associate and Associate Professor, Department of Geography, UCL
- 1993 - 2000 UCL Invited Professor 1987-1991 and Research Collaborator, Gendarmerie Headquarters, Brussels
- 1984 - 1986 FRS-FNRS Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Geography, UCL
- 1980 - 1984 FRS-FNRS Research Fellow, Department of Geography, UCL
- 1979 - 1980 Research Fellow, Department of Geography, University of Namur, Belgium
Fields of Scholarship
- Quantitative and economic geography
- Transport geography
- Cartography
- Regional sciences
Honours and Awards
- 2019 RSAI Fellow
- 2017 Edward L. Ullman Award, of the Association of American Geographers
- 2015 Belgian Francqui Chair. “Measuring and Modelling in Economic and Transport Geography: challenges and opportunities".
- 2012 Compagnie du Bois Sauvage Award, for the best complete scientific pluridisplinary project
- 2001 BMW Scientific Prize under the theme “Innovations for a Mobile Future”
- 1990 SAS Best Graph and Cartography Award,
- 1989 Philippe Aydalot Prize in Regional Science
