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Dr. Lennart Hoogerheide
Elective Faculty

Dr. Lennart Hoogerheide

Associate Professor of Econometrics

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

01/Biography

Lennart Hoogerheide is Associate Professor in the Department of Econometrics and Data Science at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and a research fellow of the Tinbergen Institute. He gained his PhD at Erasmus University Rotterdam in 2006. His research is centred on Bayesian econometrics and simulation-based inference, including importance sampling methods, value at risk and Bayesian mode inference.

02/Teaching approach

He is the author of widely used software packages implementing these methods, and teaches Bayesian econometrics and financial econometrics at bachelor's and master's level.

03/Modules taught
  • ●Bayesian Methods in Econometrics