Aleksandrs Smil­gins

I have a PhD from the University of Copenhagen, with a thesis titled “Allocation Problems and Market Design.” My academic interests include game theory, allocation techniques, market design, performance evaluation, auctions, and energy economics. My research has been published in journals such as the European Journal of Operational Research, Energy, and Insurance: Mathematics and Economics. I am currently awaiting the publication of several papers in order to apply for an Associate Professor position.

• Since 2017, I have been course responsible for the mandatory course “Game Theory” in the HA(Mat.) program at CBS. Currently I am teaching this course.
• I was also course responsible for the elective “Decision Theory: Models and Methods” from 2017 to 2024. When I took over the course in 2017, it was a small elective mainly for HA(Mat.) students, with only 25 participants. Four years later, in 2021, the course reached its limit of 80 students, coming from a wide range of disciplines at CBS. The course is quantitative, and I am pleased that I was able to serve as a gateway for some CBS students to engage with quantitative methods. Currently I am teaching this course.
• Starting in Fall 2025, I am teaching the mandatory course “Operations Research” in the HA(Mat.) program at CBS.
• For three years, I also taught part of the course “Contract, Agency and Game Theory” in the MSc in Advanced Economics and Finance (Cand.Oecon) program at CBS.
• While I was a PhD student at the University of Copenhagen, I taught the Microeconomics course for two consecutive years, covering all lectures, group assignments, and grading.
• I also have experience teaching short 2–3 day programming courses, such as Excel VBA and R. I ran my first Excel VBA course in 2010 as a student assistant at the Danish Central Bank (an internal course for employees).