2018
Eric Schaanning received FNR Award 2018 for Outstanding PhD Thesis
The Luxembourg National Research Fund awarded Eric Schaanning the 2018 Outstanding PhD Thesis Award for his dissertation "Fire sales and systemic risk in financial networks", which he finished 2017 at Imperial College London under the supervision of Professor Rama Cont. After spending a year at RiskLab as a postdoctoral researcher of Professor Paul Embrechts, Eric joined the European Systemic Risk Board in October 2018.
Michaela Szölgyenyi to become professor in Klagenfurt
Congratulations to Michaela Szölgyenyi! After spending a year at ETH as an AXA postdoc fellow, she will start as a full professor for stochastic processes at the University of Klagenfurt in September.
John Ery: 3rd place at DATA MINING CUP 2018
John Ery, PhD student of Professor Patrick Cheridito, got the 3rd place at the DATA MINING CUP 2018 International student competition for his prediction model of sell-out dates for online sports retail products. Two other members in his team, Loris Michel (PhD student at Seminar für Statistik) and Alain Rossier, won the 1st prize for their model.
Ariel Neufeld: First prize for the contribution at the 10th Conference in Actuarial Science & Finance in Samos
Dr. Ariel Neufeld was awarded with the first prize for his contribution "Robust Utility Maximization with Levy Processes" at the 10th Conference in Actuarial Science & Finance in Samos.
Paul Embrechts: farewell lecture
After 29 years as professor of Insurance Mathematics at ETH Zurich Prof. Dr. Paul Embrechts will hold his farewell lecture.