**Alvaro G ´omez-Losada ´**

Alvaro G ´ omez-Losada has been a data scientist (non-tenure track position) at the Joint Research ´ Centre, the in-house science service of the European Commission, since 2017. Previously, he worked as a data scientist at Banco Santander in Madrid. He holds a PhD, MSc, and BSc in Statistics from the University of Seville, and a MSc and BSc in Biology from the University of Cordoba. He specializes in ´ the design, implementation, evaluation, and application of machine learning algorithms to different fields (e.g., competition in e-commerce platforms, the economics of climate change, and atmospheric pollution). He has co-authored more than 15 papers in international peer-reviewed journals dealing with the application of data science. Since 2023, he has been a lecturer in Statistics at University Loyola (Seville, Spain).
