Benjamin Dybro Liengaard
Chief Data Scientist & Co-Founder Obsidianfund.ai
Expertise
- PLS-SEM
- Business analytics
- Econometrics
- Textual analysis
- Longitudinal Data Analysis
- Measurement Invariance
- Structural Equation Modeling
Appointments & Experience
2008-2012
Special Operations Forces & Forward Air Controller, Denmark
2012-2015
Bachelor of Science in Economics and Management, Aarhus University
2015-2018
International Master of Science in Quantitative Economics (Elite cand.oecon.), Aarhus University
2018-2019
Visiting Scholar: Hamburg University of Technology and Waikato Management School
2016-2020
PhD in Economics and Business Economics, Aarhus University
2020 – 2023
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics and Business Economics
2022 – 2023
Data Scientist Consultant
2020-2024
Co-founder & CTO, Obsidianfund.ai
2023>
Associate Professor, Department of Economics and Business Economics, Aarhus University
2025>
Chief Data Scientist, Obsidianfund.ai
Publications
2020, Decision Sciences
2022, Communications of the Association for Information Systems
2022, Psychology & Marketing
2022, European Journal of Marketing
2023, Journal of Applied Econometrics
2024, European Journal of Marketing
2024, Journal of Product Innovation Management
2024, Journal of Business Research
2024, European Journal of Marketing
2024, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science
Awards & Honours
2003-2011
Army Medals for International Service, in relation to service in Iraq and Afghanistan
2015
McKinsey Prize, for best overall performance among students from Economics, Political Science and Economics and Business Administration at Aarhus University
2018
3rd place, World championship in Econometrics / Econometric Game
2021
Wiley Top Downloaded Article – 6th most downloaded in Decision Sciences
2021
Decision Sciences top cited article 2019-2020
2025
Ranked in the top 1% of researchers on ResearchGate
