Upcoming events
On Neural Optimization: Uncertainty, Scarcity and Geometry
Andres Guzman Cordero , , Andres Guzman Cordero
What’s your theoretical contribution?” Unpacking, problematizing,...
Jörgen Sandberg (University of Queensland Business School, Australia)
- ABRI Seminar (Vrije Universiteit)
Annual Oxford Saïd-VU SBE Macro-finance Conference 2025
Extremes with random covariates
Just de Groot , , Just de Groot
Title to be announced
Luuk de Wit , , Luuk de Wit
Machine Learning for Business (CONFIRMED)
Faculty: Eran Raviv (Business Data Science and APG Asset-Management)
Knowing Enough to Be Dangerous: AI-Produced Representations,...
Paul Leonardi (University of California, Santa Barbara, United States)
- ABRI Seminar (Vrije Universiteit)
Title to be announced
Florian Heider (Goethe University Frankfurt and SAFE, Germany)
- TI Finance Research Seminars
Deep Learning (CONFIRMED)
Faculty: Eran Raviv (Business Data Science and APG Asset-Management)
An Implicit Score-Driven model for time-varying volatilities...
Paul Doekhie , , Paul Doekhie
Content Strategy and Creator Growth: The Role of Secondary Channels...
Bernd Große Siemer , , Bernd Grosse Siemer
Robust Filters for Multivariate Location Models Using Continuum...
Mingxuan Song , , Mingxuan Song
Why study Business Data Science
Business Data Science is a two-year research master (120 EC) aiming to train future PhD students.
7 reasons to study Business Data Science:
- Challenging new research opportunities
- Jumpstart for PhD trajectory
- Focus on Data Science & Business
- Focus on preferred specialization
- Small scale close-knit program
- Scholarships and tuition waivers available
- Three leading universities
Student Experience
Are you more interested in Economics? If so, take a look at our other research master's program.
The Tinbergen Institute serves as a gateway to PhD positions for students who have completed TI’s Research Master's programs in Economics and Business Data Science. PhD vacancies are announced throughout the academic year. For positions also open to external candidates, we encourage you to explore the opportunities listed in our PhD vacancies section.
Business Data Science
The Business Data Science (BDS) research master program at Tinbergen Institute is a joint initiative of the schools of economics and business of Erasmus University Rotterdam, the University of Amsterdam and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Courses tie the foundations of data science directly to different business fields: management science, operations analytics, quantitative finance and accounting.