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Pascal Wissink is assistant professor at the department of Operations Analytics of the School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Pascal obtained his bachelor's (2011) and master's (2013) degrees in Econometrics and Operational Research from the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, and a PhD degree (2019) in Management Science and Business Economics from the University of Edinburgh. Prior to joining the VU, he worked as a scientist and project manager at TNO (The Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research) from 2015 to 2019.

Research

Pascal specialises in topics at the cutting edge of disruption risk and optimisation: He studies optimisation challenges in financial, supply and transportation networks where failure uncertainty plays a substantial role and exploits data analytics to assess the stability of optimal solutions. His current line of research focuses on the resilience of optimal decisions in networks prone to percolation. For example, the impact of correlated random failures on the liquidity of the ridesharing economy, sustainable investments in the aluminium industry or the CVaR of evacuation decisions. Applications that he considers often feature sustainability challenges. His research interests include copulas, stochastic processes and multi-stage methods in stochastic and robust optimisation.

Teaching

Pascal lectured several courses at the undergraduate and postgraduate level including Statistics for Finance, Computing for Business, Developing Skills For Business Leadership, and Supply Chain Management. He is currently coordinator of Business Processes (BSc Bedrijfskunde) and Process Analytics (PGDip in Business Analytics and Data Science) courses and thesis coordinator of the MSc programme in Transport and Supply Chain Management. He also teaches and supervises students from those programmes.

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Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 17 - Partnerships for the Goals

Academic qualification

Stochastic Routing, PhD, University of Edinburgh

1 Sept 200110 Jul 2019

Award Date: 10 Jul 2019

Econometrics and Operational Research, Master, Quantitative Finance, Erasmus University Rotterdam

1 Sept 20117 Feb 2013

Econometrics and Operational Research, Bachelor, Financial Econometrics, Erasmus Universtiteit Rotterdam

1 Sept 200731 Aug 2011

Keywords

  • QA Mathematics
  • Operational research
  • Stochastic routing
  • Management science
  • HE Transportation and Communications
  • Vehicle routing
  • Travelling Salesman Problem
  • Logistics
  • HB Economic Theory
  • Supply chain management
  • Business economics

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