About Gijs Overgoor 

Gijs Overgoor is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at the Department of MIS, Marketing, and Analytics in the Saunders College of Business at Rochester Institute of Technology.

He completed his Marketing PhD at the University of Amsterdam, under the supervision of Professor Willemijn van Dolen and Professor Bill Rand. He holds a Masters degree in Econometrics with a specialization in Big Data and Business Analytics. Gijs Overgoor spent most of his time during his PhD in the United States as a visiting scholar at Poole College of Management at NC State University.

In his research, Gijs Overgoor adopts a quantitative approach to marketing. He aims to solve marketing problems by applying techniques from AI and Econometrics. Gijs’ work has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), International Journal of Research in Marketing and California Management Review. He was the finalist for the EMAC-AiMark Doctoral Dissertation Award 2022. 

His research has received international press coverage from Business Insider, WSJ and NPO. Gijs is also regularly invited to speak on podcasts such as Today in Digital Marketing or UpNext. 

In case you are wondering why Gijs Overgoor talks about himself in third person, he is just trying to boost SEO for his personal page. 

Thank you for your interest in me or my research. Please see the research page for more about my research or check out my CV.