News & events
1st ASTIN Bulletin Conference: CALL for ABSTRACTS
Abstract submission of the 1st ASTIN Bulletin Conference at ETH Zurich from January 14-16, 2026, is open now.
Best paper award from the "International Actuarial Association"
Ronald Richman (InsureAI and University of the Witwatersrand), Salvatore Scognamiglio (University of Naples Parthenope) and Mario Wüthrich (RiskLab) received the Joint Colloqium "Best Paper Award 2025" of the International Actuarial Association (IAA) for their paper "The credibility transformer".
Walter Saxer Prize 2025
The 2025 Walter Saxer Insurance Prize goes to Giulio Carassai for his Master's thesis. Congratulations!
Swiss Re Prize for the Best Reinsurance or Risk Paper in 2024
The prize was awarded to Ronald Richman (Old Mutual Insure, South Africa), Salvatore Scognamiglio (University of Naples, Parthenope) and Mario Wüthrich (RiskLab) for their paper "The Credibility Transformer" at the occasion of the Annual Convention of the Actuarial Society of South Africa on 20./21. November 2024.
New staff member Matthias Grützner
RiskLab welcomes PhD student Matthias Grützner
Doctoral exam of Philippe von Wurstemberger
Philippe von Wurstemberger successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Overcoming the curse of dimensionality for PDEs: from conventional numerics and nonlinear Monte Carlo to deep learning". Congratulations!
New staff member Urban Ulrych
RiskLab welcomes postdoc Urban Ulrych
New staff member Jean-Loup Dupret
RiskLab welcomes postdoc Jean-Loup Dupret
Doctoral exam of John Ery
John Ery successfully passed his oral doctoral thesis examination entitled: "Actuarial data science: lnsights from pricing, capital modeling and CAT bonds". Congratulations!
Paul Embrechts receives Best Paper Award on Financial Engineering
Paul Embrechts and his co-authors were awarded the Best Paper Award on Financial Engineering in the journal Operations Research.