Tillman Schenk
Research Analyst at Bruegel, the Brussels economics think tank, focused on AI and digital infrastructure.
Tillman Schenk joined Bruegel as a Research Analyst in September 2025, and this year co-authored its assessment putting Europe's AI computing capacity far behind the United States and China.
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Co-authored the Bruegel compute brief
European Tech Sovereignty: Bruegel puts EU AI compute at 5%Background
Tillman Schenk is a Research Analyst at Bruegel, working on semiconductor and chip strategy within Europe's wider technology policy debate. He joined in September 2025, after a traineeship at the European Commission's Secretariat-General, which gives him a practitioner's view of how the EU rules he now assesses are drafted.
His published work centres on industrial and semiconductor policy: a paper on Europe's chips strategy, co-authored with Niclas Poitiers, sits alongside a September 2026 AI compute-capacity brief he wrote with Bertin Martens. The brief's finding, that permitting delays rather than capital constrain European AI infrastructure, is the argument Schenk is currently best known for.
He traces Europe's AI capacity gap
Tillman Schenk, a Research Analyst at Bruegel working on semiconductor and chip strategy, co-authored with Bertin Martens a brief published on 10 September 2026 that measured Europe's AI computing capacity against the United States and China and found it lagging by a wide margin. The permitting argument the brief makes, and the figures behind it, are set out on Bertin Martens' page.
Schenk's own research runs toward industrial policy: he has written on Europe's chips strategy with Niclas Poitiers, and joined Bruegel in September 2025 after a traineeship at the European Commission's Secretariat-General.
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