Luce Beeckmans graduated as an engineer-architect (option urban planning) at Ghent University in 2005 and then worked at the international office of Stéphane Beel Architects. In 2013, she obtained a PhD-degree from Groningen University (Groningen Research Institute for the Study of Culture, ICOG) with an award-winning dissertation in which she studied colonial and post-colonial urban development in sub-Saharan Africa from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. In 2015 she was granted a junior FWO postdoctoral fellowship entitled 'Mapping the Invisible City. Spatial Manifestations of sub-Saharan African Diaspora in the mid-size city in Europe (the case of Belgium)'. In 2019 she obtained a senior FWO postdoctoral fellowship with the project 'Urban Diversity beyond "Social Mix": alternative concepts and methods to design micropublic spaces of encounter in Flanders' midsized cities'. As FWO-postdoc she was affiliated to Ghent University (Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, head institution), KU Leuven University (Interculturalism, Migration and Minorities Research Centre) and Antwerp University (Urban Studies Centre) in Belgium. From 2021 she combined her postdoctoral fellowship with a position of Assistant Professor in Architecture and Urbanism related to Migration and Diversity at Ghent University (Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, UGent).
