Camilo Santa Cruz Camacho
Economist | MSc Econometrics | Data Science & Business
Analytics
Dortmund, Germany
About me
Economist and MSc student in Econometrics with experience in data processing, visualization and designing and applying econometric, data science and business analytics techniques for solving problems both at academic and industry level.
I have applied these skills across multiple domains including education, labor market, the beer industry, finance, retail, international trade, and urban and transport infrastructure, among others.
Education
2023–present
Technische Universität Dortmund
M.Sc.
Econometrics
2014–2019
National University of Costa Rica
Bachelor’s in
Economics
2019–2020
National University of Costa Rica
Associate
Degree: Data Science for Business with R
Work Experience
2024–present
Data Analyst & Researcher
FH
Dortmund-iDial Institute
- Econometrics & data science
researcher at FH Dortmund iDial Institute, focusing on econometric
impact evaluation methods for Sustainable Project Management (SPM).
2023–2025
Data Scientist & Researcher (WHK)
University of Duisburg–Essen
- SOEP microdata
analysis.
- Causal inference using panel, event-study, and DiD models.
2023–2024
Data Scientist & Researcher (WHK)
Geographical Institute RUB
- Spatial data
processing and analysis.
- Development of Shiny/Flexdashboard apps.
2023
Data Scientist & Researcher (WHK)
FH
Dortmund - NLP for client reviews, sentiment analysis, and text
matching.
2021–2022
Data Scientist & Researcher
Economic
College of Costa Rica
- Regional economic analysis -
Macroeconomic analysis - Econometric modeling and spatial/input–output
analytics.
2019–2021
Teaching & Research Assistant
National
University of Costa Rica
- Regional economic analysis -
Courses: Microeconomics I–II, Industrial Organization, and Regulation
Economics.
2018–2020
Project planner (internship)
Olympic
Committe of Costa Rica
- Demand and supply analysis for
sport management specialization - Project management planning-budgeting
- Sport economics research
Apps
Research, University & Cooperation Projects
2025
Research Project
IICE (UCR)
The economic Geography of Central America
2025
Research Project
TU Dortmund (Germany)
Price and petrol anaylisis with breakpoints
2025
Research Project
TU Dortmund (Germany)
Forecasting electriciy consumption with Multivariate models
2025
Research Project
Zunify (Costa Rica)
- Customer loyalty analytics and clustering.
- Design of quasi-experimental impact evaluation.
2025
Research Project
University of Costa Rica (PRODUS)
/ MIDEPLAN
- Quantitative economic geography of territorial divisions.
- Spatial visualization and intrarregional trade analysis.
2024
Research Project
USAID (Honduras)
- Causal
model to evaluate effects of infrastructure investments in six
communities in Honduras.
2024
Research Project
World Bank / FIRA (Mexico)
-
Input–output analysis to identify key sectors via backward/forward
linkages.
2024
Research Project
Inter-American Development Bank (Panama & Costa Rica)
-
Supply-chain analytics and Non-Tariff Measure gravity modeling.
2023–2024
Research Project
United Nations ECLAC (Costa Rica)
- Forecasting fiscal impacts of transport decarbonization.
2023–2024
Research Project
Academia de Centroamérica (Costa
Rica)
- Web scraping and time-series forecasting for job postings.
- Labor demand/supply analytics for tech firms located in Free Zones of
Costa Rica.
2022–2023
Research Project, Beeronometrics Project (Global)
- Panel-data econometrics of competition and efficiency in the world
beer market.
2022
Research Project
SIECA (Guatemala & Costa
Rica)
- Input–output analysis of regional industrial linkages.
Methods & Tools
- Programming & Data: R, RMarkdown, LaTeX, Shiny,
Flexdashboard, Python, PowerBi
- Econometrics: Cross-sectional, panel, and
time-series models; forecasting
- Spatial & Industrial: Regional visualization, spatial econometrics input–output models
Languages
- Spanish: Native
- English: Fluent (CEFR C1)
- German: Intermediate (B2)