Doctoral researcher in actuarial science

We are looking for a highly motivated, enthusiastic, communicative, and eager-to-learn researcher with a passion for actuarial science, statistics, probability theory and analytics.Specific qualifications:

Holder of a Master's degree in mathematics, actuarial science, statistics, engineering, or another related, quantitative field, with

excellent grades.

Interested in programming and computational work

The insurance industry faces fundamental changes that will not be tackled by incremental improvements of existing techniques, but call for entirely new insurance pricing paradigms. The dynamics of emerging risks such as cyber and weather related risks need to be handled with little or no past data. At the same time, for more traditional covers the wealth of data that is collected now presents new challenges (e.g., computational or ethical) and opportunities (e.g., statistical power). Differential pricing is a foundation of modern-day insurance and deals with the actuarial v...