Debora Daniela Escobar

Dr. Debora Daniela Escobar is an Assistant Professor at the School of Mathematical & Computer Sciences in Heriot-Watt University, specializing in Actuarial Mathematics & Statistics. Prior to this role, she served as an Assistant Professorial Lecturer at the London School of Economics (LSE), where she directed the BSc Actuarial Science program, and held a Fellowship after completing her PhD at the University of Vienna.

• Education: PhD in Statistics and Operations Research (University of Vienna), MSc in Statistical and Computational Data Analytics (Complutense University of Madrid, Technical University of Madrid), BSc in Mathematics (Complutense University of Madrid)

Her research focuses on dynamic programming, robust optimization, and model ambiguity, with applications in risk management, operational resilience, and sustainable finance and insurance. She has applied these methodologies to problems like thermal power plant valuation and insurance pricing under uncertainty.

Dr. Escobar's recent publications demonstrate expertise in computational management science and operations research, particularly in addressing multi-scale optimization and robustness in actuarial models. Her work has earned citations in Scopus (4 and 13 for the two main papers) and institutional downloads.