Francisco Villavicencio

Francisco Villavicencio is a demographer, statistician and data scientist interested in the study of how population dynamics affect public health and aging. His research focuses on the development of methods to analyze incomplete demographic data, with special emphasis on mortality, causes of death and longevity. He received his PhD in Statistics from the University of Southern Denmark in 2017. Dr. Villavicencio is currently a Ramón y Cajal Research fellow with the Department of Economic, Financial and Actuarial Mathematics of University of Barcelona. He is also a Visiting researcher at the Interdisciplinary Center on Population Dynamics of the University of Southern Denmark, and Associate with the Department of International Health of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore.