prof.dr. Herman van Dijk

Herman K. van Dijk is a professor of econometrics and holds a Personal Chair at Erasmus School of Economics (ESE).

Herman K. van Dijk is director of the Tinbergen Institute. He is listed in the Econometricians Hall of Fame by the Journal Econometric Theory as one of the top ten econometricians in Europe.

His research interests lie in the area of Bayesian inference using simulation techniques, time series econometrics, neural networks, and income distributions.

He is the author of more than 120 international scientific journal papers and reports and a number of books. An honorary fellow of the Tinbergen Institute, he serves on the editorial board of the major journals in econometrics.

Professor van Dijk is the former director of the Econometric Institute. He has extensive experience as managing, co-managing and coordinating research initiatives and conferences.

He has been a visiting fellow and visiting professor at Cambridge University in the UK, the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium, Harvard University in the US, Duke University in the UK, Cornell University in the UK, and the University of New South Wales in Australia.

He received the Savage Prize for his PhD dissertation.