Work experience

• Professor of Actuarial Mathematics, University of Lausanne, since 2009


• Faculty Member, Swiss Finance Institute, since 2011


• Professor of Insurance Mathematics, University of Linz, 2007-2009


• Deputy Director of the Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Linz, 2007-2009


• Group Leader "Financial Mathematics" at the Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Linz, 2005-2009


• Associate Professor at Graz University of Technology, 2005-2007


• Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Aarhus, 2005


• Assistant Professor at Graz University of Technology, 2001-2005


• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 2003-2004


• Visiting Scholar, International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, 1998

• Habilitation (Venia Docendi) in Applied Mathematics, Graz University of Technology, 2005


• Ph.D. in Technical Mathematics, Graz University of Technology, 2001


• Studies of Technical Mathematics and Astronomy at Graz University of Technology, University of Limerick (Ireland) and Johns-Hopkins University Baltimore (Maryland, USA)

Other activities

• Editor-in-Chief, European Actuarial Journal, since 2019


• Editor-in-Chief, Springer Actuarial Series, since 2012


• Co-Editor, Statistics & Risk Modeling, since 2011


• Associate Editor, Journal of Applied Probability, since 2009


• Associate Editor, Advances in Applied Probability, since 2009


• Member of the Editorial Board, Radon Series for Computational and Applied Mathematics, deGruyter Berlin, since 2006


• Associate Editor, Insurance: Mathematics & Economics, 2008-2009 and since 2019


• Editor, Insurance: Mathematics & Economics, 2010-2018


• Co-Editor, European Actuarial Journal, 2011-2018


• Associate Editor, Mathematical Methods of Operations Research, 2007-2011


• Editor, Bulletin of the Swiss Association of Actuaries, 2009-2010


• Associate Editor, Blaetter der DGVFM, 2007-2010

• Project Leader "Risk Modelling with Matrix Distributions", supported
  by the Swiss National Science Foundation, 2020-2023
  


• Project Leader "High precision approximations in risk theory with heavy tails", supported
  by the Swiss National Science Foundation, 2017-2019
  


• Co-Investigator "Impact 2C", EU-FP7 Grant, 2011-2015


• Project Leader "Mathematical Analysis of Insurance Risk Processes II", supported
  by the Swiss National Science Foundation, 2012-2016
  


• Project Leader "Mathematical Analysis of Insurance Risk Processes", supported
  by the Swiss National Science Foundation, 2009-2012
  


• Project Leader ''Mathematical Models for Insurance Risk'' supported by the Austrian Science Fund, 2006-2009
  


• Research Associate, "Economics of Weather and Climate Risks I", supported by the Jubilee Fund of the Austrian National Bank, 2008-2009

Academic honors