Biography

Welcome! I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Research Centre for Longevity Risk of the University of Amsterdam. Previously, I did my PhD under the supervision of Katrien Antonio in the Insurance department at the Faculty of Economics and Business, KU Leuven. My current research explores diverse aspects of mortality and longevity modeling, with a focus on the impact of environmental and epidemiological variables on excess mortality, the use of machine learning techniques in mortality modeling, and old-age mortality patterns. Additionally, I hold a keen interest in the application of data science techniques within the non-life insurance domain.

Education

Postdoc at RCLR, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 2024-Present
PhD in Actuarial Sciences, KU Leuven, 2020-2024
MSc in Actuarial and Financial Engineering, KU Leuven, 2019-2020
MSc in Mathematics, KU Leuven, 2017-2019
BSc in Mathematics, KU Leuven, 2014-2017

News

Our new working paper, co-authored with Karim Barigou (UCLouvain) and Torsten Kleinow (UvA), is now available: “Granular mortality modeling with temperature and epidemic shocks: a three-state regime-switching approach ”. You can read it on arXiv.

As of September 1, 2024 I have started as a postdoctoral researcher at the Research Centre for Longevity Risk of the University of Amsterdam.

Our new working paper, co-authored with Katrien Antonio (KUL, UvA) and Torsten Kleinow (UvA), is now available: “The short-term association between environmental variables and mortality: evidence from Europe”. You can read it on arXiv.

Our paper “Catastrophe risk in a stochastic multi-population mortality model”, co-authored with Katrien Antonio, has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Risk and Insurance. You can read it here or on arXiv.