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dr. Pascal Wissink

Assistant Professor, School of Business and Economics, Operations Analytics

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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 VU Amsterdam, he worked as a scientist and project manager at TNO (The Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research) from 2015 to 2019.

Research

Pascal Wissink studies decision-making in networks subject to random failures. Financial and economic systems, supply chains, and distribution and transport networks all rely on nodes and edges that may fail. These failures are rarely independent. A common shock such as a flood, supply disruption or market crash causes correlated failures across many nodes and links simultaneously, eliminating or eroding the network's capacity to match supply and demand. His research develops optimisation models whose solutions remain resilient under such dependent failures. He also uses data analytics to quantify their impact on firms, consumers, and the stability of equilibria and optimal solutions. Applications include the liquidity of ridesharing markets, disruption propagation in interfirm networks, the CVaR of evacuation decisions, and sustainable investments in the aluminium industry. Methodologically, he draws on network reconstruction, copulas, stochastic processes, and multi-stage stochastic and robust optimisation. He is PI of the NWO-funded RESCUE project.

Teaching

Pascal has taught several courses at the undergraduate, postgraduate and executive level at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Tinbergen Institute and (previously) University of Edinburgh. His involvement encompasses several programmes, including the BSc Bedrijfskunde, MSc Econometrics and Operations Research, MSc Transport and Supply Chain Management, PGDip in Business Analytics and Data Science, and MRes Business Data Science. Courses that he taught include Statistics for Finance, Simulation Analysis & Optimization, Computing for Business, Developing Skills For Business Leadership, Process Analytics, and Supply Chain Management.

Pascal is currently the course coordinator of Business Processes (BSc Bedrijfskunde) and thesis coordinator of the MSc programme in Transport and Supply Chain Management. He also lectures in these courses and supervises several MSc and PhD thesis students.

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