Bachelor degree in Mathematics, Postgraduate, M.Sc. and PhD in Statistics. My research involves theoretical and software developments for geostatistical analysis, complex networks and regression models of spatial, spatio-temporal and functional data. Many of these models and tools have been inspired and in consequence applied to in agriculture, environment, meteorology, epidemiology, planning, medicine, among many others.

Mauricio Castro is an associate professor in the Department of Statistics at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, where he has worked since 2017. Previously, he spent nearly a decade at Universidad de Concepción after earning his Ph.D. in Statistics from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in 2008. His research focuses on statistical modeling for complex datasets, including spatial, longitudinal, and temporal models applied to economics, biology, and psychology.

Dr. Anders Holmberg is the Chief Methodologist/General Manager of the Methodology and Data Science Division at the Australian Bureau of Statistics since September 2019. He has a PhD in Statistics about model assisted survey planning, and a background working with various types of data sources for official statistics in many different countries including Sweden, Cambodia, New Zealand and Norway. He has been a member of Eurostat's Directors of Methodology group and is still a member of the Methodology Advisory boards of Statistics Netherlands and Statistics Sweden.

Philip Wollburg is Senior Economist at the World Bank Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS).  His research interests include agriculture, poverty, and climate impacts in low-income countries. He co-leads the team’s program on Survey Methods and Tools.

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile