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Isabelle Thomas, Ordinary Professor of Geography at Université Catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) in Belgium and Research director of FRS-FNRS.

Professional Career
Most of her career is academical (National Fund for Scientific Research) at the exception of five years (1987-1991) at the Belgian Gendarmerie Headquarters for studying road accidents spatial structures.

Since 1992, her academic research is anchored in transport, economic and quantitative geography, and her main research topics are:

- Modelling optimal locations of human activities and more particularly the sensitivity of the location-allocation and transportation models to their geographical inputs

- Applied quantitative analysis for spatial data with topics such as scale

- M.A.U.P: Modifiable areal unit problem

- Autocorrelation

- Statistical mapping

- Landscape morphometrics

- Transport geography

- Cartography

- Big data, etc.

Application domains are mainly socio-economic and transportation issues in Belgium.

She never hesitates to collaborate with researchers of other disciplines to deal with cutting edge topics and methods. She is an active member of several editorial boards of international scientific journals in geography as well as in scientific national and international commissions and boards.

She was recently awarded by the American Association of Geographers (AAG) for her contribution in transport geography (2017 Edward L. Ullman Award) and by the Regional Science Association International (RSAI) for her contribution in regional sciences (2019).

Academic Background
Alma mater : UNamur and UCLouvain (PhD 1984; thèse aggregation 2000)

Member of Academia Europaea

Academic Work
Discipline: geography, regional science

Current affiliation: Université Catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), Center of Operations Research (CORE) and School of Geography.

Prizes & 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

Notes and references

 * Huisvesting in sociaal-economisch en geografisch perspectief : 1981-1991 = Le logement : réalités socio-économiques et géographiques / L. GOOSSENS, I. THOMAS et D. VANNESTE. Bruxelles : Institut National de Statistique, 1997. (Monographie nr. 10 du Recensement).
 * Les forces d'agglomération dans la métropolisation de l'économie / Pierre-Philippe COMBES et Isabelle THOMAS (eds). Bruxelles: CIFOP, 2000.
 * Governing cities on the move : functional and management perspectives on transformations of European urban infrastructures / Martin DIJST, Walter SCHENKEL and Isabelle THOMAS (eds). Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002. (Urban and regional planning and development).
 * Transportation networks and the optimal location of human activities: a numerical geography approach / Isabelle THOMAS. Cheltenham: E. Elgar, 2002.
 * Le logement en Belgique / Dominique Vanneste, Isabelle Thomas, Luc Goossens. (Enquête socio-économique 2001). Bruxelles : SPF Economie, 2007.
 * Woning en woonomgeving in België / Dominique Vanneste, Isabelle Thomas, Luc Goossens. (Sociaal-economische enquête 2001). Brussel : FOD Economie, 2007.
 * Atlas Erasme : espace et société / M.-L. DE KEERSMAECKER, I. THOMAS. Namur : Erasme, 2008.
 * Le mouvement pendulaire en Belgique : les déplacements domicile-lieu de travail, les déplacements domicile-école / A. VERHETSEL, I. THOMAS, E. VAN HECKE. (Enquête socio-économique 2001). Bruxelles : SPF Economie, 2009.


 * Atlas de Belgique - Tome 4 : Habitat / I. THOMAS, D. VANNESTE et X. QUERRIAU. Gent : Academia Press, 2011.

External links section
https://uclouvain.be/fr/node/4474

https://www.regionalscience.org

https://www.frs-fnrs.be/en/le-fnrs/missions-du-fnrs