News & events
Best Presentation Award at the 7th European Actuarial Journal Conference
Congratulations! Selim Gatti, PhD student at RiskLab, won the "Best Presentation Award" at the "7th European Actuarial Journal Conference" for his talk "Assessing Model Calibration using Boosting Trees".
New staff member Zhexin Wu
RiskLab welcomes PhD student Zhexin Wu
New staff member Qingyang Zhu
RiskLab welcomes PhD student Qingyang Zhu
Urban Ulrych to become assistant professor at the University of Ljubljana
Congratulations to Urban Ulrych, Postdoc at RiskLab, on completing his habilitation in Finance and on his appointment as Assistant Professor in Quantitative Finance at the Academic Unit for Money and Finance, School of Economics and Business, University of Ljubljana, starting on 1 October 2026.
Doctoral exam of Moritz Weiss
Moritz Weiss successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Machine learning for algorithmic trading and risk management". Congratulations!
Jean-Loup Dupret to become tenure track assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam
Congratulations to Jean-Loup Dupret, Postdoc at RiskLab, on his appointment as tenure track assistant professor in Actuarial Science and Mathematical Finance at the Quantitative Economics section of the University of Amsterdam starting on 1 September 2026.
Doctoral exam of Bálint Binkert
Bálint Binkert successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: “Trustworthy artificial intelligence and deep learning in financial mathematics”. Congratulations!
Walter Saxer Prize 2026
Isidora Stojadinovic and Orlando Monsalve Rueda were awarded the 2026 Walter Saxer Prize in recognition of their outstanding Master’s theses.
New staff member Zhiang Wu
RiskLab welcomes PhD student Zhiang Wu
RGA RE prize for the Best Published Paper
Mathias Lindholm (Stockholm University), Ronald Richman (InsureAI and University of the Witwatersrand), Andreas Tsanakas (City St George's, University of London) and Mario Wüthrich (RiskLab) received the RGA RE (Reinsurance Group of America) "Best Published Paper" award for their paper “A multi-task network approach for calculating discrimination-free insurance prices” at the occasion of the Annual Convention of the Actuarial Society of South Africa on 5./6. November 2025.