Lecturers
Hansjoerg Albrecher
University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Hansjoerg Albrecher is Professor of Actuarial Science at the Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Lausanne and a Faculty Member of the Swiss Finance Institute. After studying in Graz, Limerick and Baltimore, he held faculty and visiting positions in Graz, Leuven, Aarhus and the Radon Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Linz before moving to Lausanne in 2009. He has published extensively in the field of insurance modelling and risk theory, and currently also is an Editor of Insurance: Mathematics and Economics as well as a Co-Editor of the European Actuarial Journal.
University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Hansjoerg Albrecher is Professor of Actuarial Science at the Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Lausanne and a Faculty Member of the Swiss Finance Institute. After studying in Graz, Limerick and Baltimore, he held faculty and visiting positions in Graz, Leuven, Aarhus and the Radon Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Linz before moving to Lausanne in 2009. He has published extensively in the field of insurance modelling and risk theory, and currently also is an Editor of Insurance: Mathematics and Economics as well as a Co-Editor of the European Actuarial Journal.
Jef Teugels
Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
After his Ph.D. at Purdue, USA, Jef Teugels was Professor at the Catholic University of Leuven, with many visiting positions at other places (including Coimbra, Cambridge, University of California, Vancouver, Chapel Hill and Australian National University). Jef co-authored many books (including Regular Variation, Stochastic Processes for Insurance and Finance, Statistics of Extremes) and about 180 papers on stochastic processes, actuarial mathematics, statistics, multivariate discrete data, extreme value theory etc. He is Past President of the ISI, former President of the Bernoulli Society, and has been active in many committees and journal editorial boards. He has also co-edited the Encyclopedia of Actuarial Science.
Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
After his Ph.D. at Purdue, USA, Jef Teugels was Professor at the Catholic University of Leuven, with many visiting positions at other places (including Coimbra, Cambridge, University of California, Vancouver, Chapel Hill and Australian National University). Jef co-authored many books (including Regular Variation, Stochastic Processes for Insurance and Finance, Statistics of Extremes) and about 180 papers on stochastic processes, actuarial mathematics, statistics, multivariate discrete data, extreme value theory etc. He is Past President of the ISI, former President of the Bernoulli Society, and has been active in many committees and journal editorial boards. He has also co-edited the Encyclopedia of Actuarial Science.