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Christian Furrer, associate professor

Christian Furrer was 1 February 2024 appointed Associate Professor in Actuarial Mathematics at the…

Nina Lange, assistant professor

Nina Lange has been employed as an assistant professor since 1 January 2024 in the section for…

Research grants

Semper Ardens grants to Bladt & Osajda

Martin Bladt and Damian Osajda receive The Carlsberg Foundation’s Semper Ardens Accelerate grant.…

First InterAct Day 2023

The InterAct Day is organised annually throughout the lifetime of the project frame and aims to…

Matthias Fahrenwaldt and Kristian Buchardt appointed affiliated professors

The Dean has appointed Matthias Fahrenwaldt and Kristian Buchardt as affiliated professors at the…

Malthe Rauh Johansen, PhD student

Malthe Rauh Johansen will start on September 1st 2023 as a PhD student in the department's section…

Christoffer Kinttof Øhlenschlæger, PhD student

Christoffer Kinttof Øhlenschlæger is employed as a PhD student at the department from September…

Tessa Steensgaard, PhD student

Tessa Steensgaard was employed as a PhD student from August 2023 at the department’s section for…

Copenhagen Workshop on Fairness

On August 17 and 18, 2023, the department hosted a workshop on fairness with a view towards…

Karl Kristian Engelund, PhD student

Karl Kristian Engelund will start on 1 September 2023 as a PhD student in the department’s section…

Philipp Carsten Hornung, PhD student

Philipp Carsten Hornung started on 7 August 2923 as a PhD student in the department’s section for…

Phillip Frede Halmsted Olsen, PhD student

Phillip has been employed as a PhD student since 1 April 2023, working with the section Insurance…

Emil Ditmar Hofman, research assistant

Emil Ditmar Hofman is employed from 1 March 2023 for three months as a research assistant in the…

Mehdi Jabbari Nooghabi, research assistant

Mehdi Jabbari Nooghabi is employed as a research assistant, from February until July 2023. He will…

Martin Bladt, Associate Professor

Martin Bladt has been appointed as Associate Professor at the Department for Mathematical Sciences…

Yevhen Havrylenko, postdoc

January 9th 2023 started Yevhen as a postdoctoral researcher in the research group of Mogens…

RESEARCH COLLABORATION

Actuarial scientist publishes in Nature

It rarely happens: A mathematician publishes on the front page of the renowned scientific journal…

Jiali Deng, PhD student

Jiali Deng is employed as a PhD student from 1 September 2022 in the section of Insurance and…

Debbie Kusch Falden, postdoc

Debbie Kusch Falden was employed as a postdoc at the Department of Mathematical Sciences 1 August…

Luca De Gennaro Aquino, postdoc

Luca De Gennaro Aquino is employed as a postdoc in the Insurance and Economics section from 1…

Martin Bladt, postdoc

Starting 1 September 2022, Martin Bladt is employed as a postdoc at the Department of Mathematical…

Julie Bjørner Søe, PhD student

Julie Bjørner Søe was employed on 1 April 2022 as a PhD student at the department's section…

Gabriele Pittarello, visiting PhD student

For the next year, Gabriele Pittarello is visiting the department’s section for Insurance and…

Conference about sustainable investments

Professor Mogens Steffensen from the Department of Mathematical Sciences is facilitating a…

Oliver Lunding Sandqvist, industrial PhD student

Oliver Lunding Sandqvist enrolled as an industrial PhD student at the department in cooperation wit…

Researchers will enlighten us about insurance and pensions

With DKK 45 million (€6M) over the next 12 years, the University of Copenhagen has landed a…

Sangmin Lee, industrial PhD student

Sangmin is employed as an industrial PhD student from 1 February 2022, working with the department'…

Research project

Fund support for the research project FAIR

“Actuarial mathematical modelling adapted to the individual's juridical status”, in Danish…

SCIENCE Business Prize to Mogens Steffensen

Professor Mogens Steffensen has been awarded the SCIENCE Business Prize, which is awarded to those…

Green Transition: Optimization of the logistics for car sharing

Operational Research and advanced stochastic optimization techniques can help make car-sharing more…

Nena Batenburg, PhD student

Nena Batenburg was employed 1 September 2021 by the department’s section for Insurance and Economic…

Munir Hiabu, assistant professor

Munir Hiabu joined the department 1 September 2021 as tenure-track Assistant Professor in Data…

Martin Tegnér, assistant professor

Martin Tegnér was employed as a tenure-track assistant professor from 1 June 2021 in the section of…

GAUSS Prize to Bladt & Steffensen for outstanding work

Mogens Bladt and Mogens Steffensen from the University of Copenhagen, and Søren Asmussen from the…

Xiaomeng Liu, visiting PhD student

Xiaomeng Liu is visiting the Department’s Section for Insurance and Economics for a year with Rolf…

Mathematical models contributes to the green transition

Independent Research Fund Denmark supports 65 research projects on green conversion. Associate…

Julie Bjørner Søe, research assistant

Julie is employed from 15. October 2020 as a research assistant in the section for Insurance and…

Christian Furrer, tenure track assistant professor

Starting 1 October 2020, Christian Furrer is employed as a tenure track assistant professor at the…

Nicolas Meyer, postdoc

Nicolas started as a postdoc on 1 September 2020 at the Department of Mathematical Sciences. He is …

Jinwen Ye, PhD student

Jinwen Ye is employed as a PhD student from 1 September 2020, member of the section Insurance and…

Farzaneh Pourahmadi, postdoc

Farzaneh Pourahmadi is employed as a postdoc at the Department of Mathematical Sciences under the…

Christian Furrer awarded with the GAUSS Prize

Christian Furrer from the University of Copenhagen and PFA Pension has been awarded this year's…

Jacob Bjerre Skov, PhD student

Jacob Bjerre Skov starts as a PhD student in the Insurance and Economics section 1st of May 2020.…

Yumo Zhang, PhD student

Yumo started as a PhD student in the Insurance and Economics section 1st of January 2020. His…

Jamaal Ahmad, PhD student

Jamaal is employed as a PhD student at the Department of Mathematical Sciences from 1 January 2020.…

Anna Kamille Petersen, PhD student

Anna Kamille Petersen was employed as a PhD student at the department on 1 August 2019. She is…

Frontiers in Quantitative Finance

Machine Learning means new tools for the financial sector. They will be in focus at a workshop…

Debbie Kusch Falden, PhD student

Debbie Kusch Falden has been employed as a PhD student at the Department of Mathematical Sciences…

Sigurd Rømer, PhD student

Sigurd Rømer will start as a PhD student at the Insurance and Economics section from the 15th of…

Henrik Thybo Dam, postdoc

Henrik Thybo Dam is employed as postdoc at the department's section for Insurance and Economics.

Alexander Sevel Lollike, PhD student

Alexander Sevel Lollike is employed from 1 December 2018 as a PhD student at the Department of…

Inaugural lectures by Mogens Bladt and Mathias Drton

Mogens Bladt, professor of applied probability and insurance mathematics, and Mathias Drton,…

Martin Emil Jakobsen is awarded the Edlund-DMF Thesis Prize

The Danish Mathematical Association's Thesis Prize of DKK 15,000 will be awarded to Martin Emil…

Mogens Bladt, professor

The Dean has appointed Mogens Bladt professor of applied probability and insurance mathematics at…

Jeffrey Collamore, professor

The Dean has appointed Jeffrey Collamore professor of applied probability and insurance mathematics…

Peter Johnson, postdoc at IE

1 February 2018 Peter Johnson joined the Department of Mathematical Sciences as a postdoc working…

Research funding

Research project will ensure pension savings

Department of Mathematical Sciences participates in a new IT-research project aimed at providing…

Professor Ragnar Norberg is dead

Ragnar Norberg died December 18 after long illness.

Professor Thomas Mikosch receives the Humboldt Prize

The Humboldt Research Award has been granted to Professor Thomas Mikosch, professor in actuarial…

Giovanni Pantuso, associate professor in Operations Research

The Dean has appointed Giovanni Pantuso as associate professor in Operations Research at the…

HARALD BOHR LECTURE

Harald Bohr Lecture by Paul Embrechts

The Department of Mathematical Sciences is proud to announce Professor Paul Embrechts, ETH Zurich,…

Christian Furrer, industrial PhD student

Christian Furrer has been enrolled as an industrial PhD student at the department in cooperation…

Jorge Yslas Altamirano, PhD student

Jorge Yslas Altamirano is employed as a PhD student in the section for Insurance and Economics as o…

Villum Experiment

Funding for mathematical experiments

Associate Professor Jesper Lund Pedersen and postdoc Alexandra Muñoz have received funding from the…

David Skovmand, Associate Professor

David Skovmand is employed from 1 January 2016 as an associate professor of Financial Mathematics i…

Henrik Dam, PhD student

Henrik Dam has started as a PhD student at the Insurance and Economics Section from 1st of October…

Omri Ross, postdoc

Omri Ross was employed as a postdoc at MATH in October 2015, where he was associated with the…

Anja Janßen, new postdoc

Anja Janßen is employed as a postdoc at MATH, associated with the Insurance & Economics section. Sh…

AmirHosein Sadeghimanesh, new PhD student

AmirHosein Sadeghimanesh is employed as a PhD student at the Department of Mathematical Sciences…

Giovanni Pantuso, new postdoc

Giovanni Pantuso is employed as a postdoc in the Insurance and Economics Section where he will be…

Henrik Carøe Bylling, new PhD student

Henrik Carøe Bylling has started as a PhD student at the Insurance and Economics Section from 1st o…

Xie Xiaolei, PhD student

Xie Xiaolei is employed as a PhD student from November 2014. He is associated with the Insurance an…