Francisco Blasques

Francisco Blasques is a Full Professor of Econometrics and Data Science at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Francisco is also the Director of Doctoral Research at the School of Business and Economics. Blasques holds a PhD in Econometrics and Operations Research from Maastricht University and has supervised numerous Master thesis students since 2008. Additionally, Francisco serves as an editor at Open Economics (De Gruyter) and has held various roles in data science at companies like ACEDA and Royal Schiphol Group. Francisco's expertise includes structural modeling, anomaly detection, and optimization in fields such as wind energy, marketing analysis, and credit risk assessment.