"The gap between theory and practice usually turns out to be larger in practice than in theory"
Professor, Actuarial Sciences & Mathematical Finance
Actuarial Science
Life Insurance, Derivatives, Stochastic Processes
Rapid Detection and Estimation of Abrupt Changes by Nonlinear Filtering (1998)
Awarded a 500.000 euro grant from Netspar for the period 2009-2014.
SIGEST award of SIAM, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (2006)
Director of Research, the Derivatives Technology Foundation
Financial Mathematics for Insurance
Empirical Project
Seminar Actuariaat
Course materials are available through the UvA Blackboard Server
Coordinator of Netspar Theme "Reconciling Short Term Risks and Long Term Goals for Retirement Provisions"
Director of the Actuarial Science research programme within RESAM
Member of AMaMeF, the European Science Foundation's research programme on Advanced Mathematical Methods in Finance
Member of the Senate of the University of Amsterdam
Director of Research, the Derivatives Technology Foundation
Affiliated member of the Dutch Actuarial Association
Member of the Dutch Mathematical Society (Board member 2001-2005)