Reinout Heijungs

Reinout Heijungs is associate professor at the Department of Econometrics and Operations Research of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

After his graduation in 1987 in theoretical physics from Groningen University, he went to Leiden University, first as an assistant professor in physiological physics at the Medical Faculty, and next to the Institute of Environmental Sciences, as a researcher and assistant professor in environmental science.

In 1997 he received his PhD (cum laude) for his thesis entitled Economic Drama and the Environmental Stage. After taking PhD, he spent a four-years research period at the Department of Spatial Economics of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, but returned fully to Leiden University in 2002.

Since 2013, he is again with Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, as an associate professor in quantitative methods. A principle task is organizing and teaching classes in mathematics and statistics for several BSc programmes. His research is done within the Mathematical and Computational Economics (MACE) group.

So far, he has successfully supervised 7 PhD students, and authored/co-authored more than 100 peer-reviewed articles as well as 4 books. He is or has been member of several editorial boards, review committees, organizing committees and PhD committees. He is Research Fellow of the Tinbergen Institute.

He still has a small task at Leiden University, advising PhD students and others.

Please check his personal website for more detailed information.

Characteristic keywords, now or in the past, are (in alphabetical order):

• computational methods
• data analysis
• environmental footprints
• human and environmental risk assessment
• input-output analysis
• life cycle assessment
• linear algebra
• mathematics
• meta-analysis
• non-linear dynamics
• physical economics
• scientific software development
• statistics
• substance flow analysis
• thermodynamics

My main responsibility is the education of quantitative methods (maths & stats) in the bachelor programs of Economics and Business Economics, Business Administration (Bedrijfskunde), and International Business Administration, as well as in the bachelor program Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE; John Stuart Mill College).

I am involved in teaching/coordinating/examining the following courses:

• Business mathematics (BSc International business administration)
• Business mathematics (BSc Bedrijfskunde)
• Quantitative research methods I (BSc Economics and business economics)
• Methods of PPE II: Statistics (BSc Philosophy, politics and economics)
• Business statistics (BSc International business administration)
• Business statistics (BSc Bedrijfskunde)
• Quantitative research methods II (BSc Economics and business economics)

Finally, I am responsible for the matching activities for prospective students.

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