Simas Kučinskas

Hey there 👋 I'm a data leader, researcher, and handstand enthusiast. Currently, I'm a Research Manager at the Forecasting Research Institute, helping turn forecasting research into real-world impact. Before this role, I built and led the first data team for Vinted Go's own parcel delivery service. I hold a PhD in economics from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and have published in leading academic journals including The Review of Economics and Statistics and The Economic Journal. My research on estimating the reproduction number of COVID-19 was featured in Our World in Data, and I've received the Vladas Jurgutis Prize from the Bank of Lithuania together with Artūras Juodis for work on quantifying noise in subjective expectations.