A medal for Thomas Mikosch
Professor Thomas Mikosch has been awarded the Willem van Zwet Medal for Special Service to the Bernoulli Society. The Bernoulli Society is the international organization for probability and mathematical statistics.
The Medal Ceremony was held on 3 July 2023, during the European Meeting of Statisticians in Warsaw, Poland. The Medal is in honour of Willem van Zwet, who served the Bernoulli Society and its aims in many special ways.
Thomas Mikosch is a Professor at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen. He got his Master's degree in Mathematics at TU Dresden (1981), defended his PhD in Probability Theory at St. Petersburg University (1984), and his Habilitation at TU Dresden (1990). Before joining the University of Copenhagen in 2001, he worked at TU Dresden, ETH Zürich, ISOR Wellington, and RUG Groningen.
Thomas has published numerous papers and five books on extreme value theory, time series analysis, and insurance mathematics. The sixth book (with Olivier Wintenberger) “is still growing”, as he says.
From 2009 to 2011, Thomas he was the editor‑in‑chief of the journal Stochastic Processes and their Applications, an official journal of the Bernoulli Society. He then continued as Publications Chair of the Bernoulli Society, became a member of the Council and was the first Publications Secretary of the Bernoulli Society.
You can read an interview with Thomas in Bernoulli News, where he tells about his career and his work for the Bernoulli Society.