Short CV of Prof. Dr. Mario V. Wüthrich

Education and Degrees:

• 2004: Aktuar SAV / Actuary SAA: Education in Insurance Mathematics and Actuarial Sciences at the Swiss Association of Actuaries SAA


• 1999: PhD in Mathematics (Dr. sc. math.) at ETH Zurich in the field of Probability Theory
  
  - Thesis: Crossing Brownian Motion in a Poissonian Potential
  - Supervisors: Prof. A.-S. Sznitman, ETH Zurich, and Prof. E. Bolthausen, University of Zurich


• 1995: Diploma in Mathematics (Dipl. math. ETH) at ETH Zurich
  
  - Diploma Thesis: Aspekte in First-Passage Percolation
  - Supervisor: Prof. A.-S. Sznitman, ETH Zurich

Promotions and Awards:

• 2011: Professor (Titular), ETH Zurich


• 2011-2013: Honorary Visiting Professor at City University, London


• Casualty Actuarial Society, Charles A. Hachemeister Prize 2008: 2nd rank with the paper: Credibility for the chain ladder reserving method. A. Gisler, M.V. Wüthrich, Astin Bulletin 38 (2008), no. 2, 565--600.

Graduated PhD Students:

• 2009: Dominik D. Lambrigger. Risk Aggregation, Diversification and Expert Opinion: Theory and Applications in Finance and Insurance. Diss. ETH No. 18719.


• 2009: Matthias Degen. The Analysis of Extreme Events: With Applications to Financial Risk Management. Diss. ETH No. 18720.


• 2009: Daniel Hakim Alai. Prediction Uncertainty in Stochastic Claims Reserving Methods. Diss. ETH No. 18735.

Employments:

• Since 03/2011: Professor (Titular) in the Department of Mathematics at ETH Zurich within RiskLab Switzerland. Main focus: Research and education in actuarial mathematics.


• 09/2005-02/2011: Lecturer and Senior Scientist in the Department of Mathematics at ETH Zurich within RiskLab Switzerland (Director Prof. P. Embrechts). Main focuses are the education and research in Insurance Mathematics and Actuarial Sciences, as well as the organization of the actuarial education of the Swiss Association of Actuaries (Aktuar SAV / Actuary SAA) at ETH Zurich.


• 10/2000-08/2005: Actuarial position at Winterthur Insurance for Non-Life Insurance (Market Unit Switzerland) with Prof. A. Gisler and Dr. B. Locher. The main focuses of my work were: Claims reserving for all Non-Life lines of business, value based management, risk management, capital allocation, the development and implementation of the Swiss Solvency Test and SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley Act).


• 09/1999-08/2000: Postdoc position at University of Nijmegen (NL) with Prof. W.T.F. den Hollander, which was financially supported by the Dutch Research Fund FOM (Fundamenteel Onderzoek der Materie). Main focus of the project was the mathematical analysis of statistical models in physics.


• 05/1995-08/1999: Teaching assistant in the Department of Mathematics at ETH Zurich for probability theory and statistics (Proff. F. Delbaen, P. Embrechts and A.-S. Sznitman).


• 02/1993-04/1993: Teaching at Technikum Winterthur (today Zürcher Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften ZHaW).

Professional Activities:

• Since 01/2011: Editor of the ASTIN Bulletin


• Since 10/2010: Editorial Board of the European Actuarial Journal EAJ


• Since 08/2006: Member of the Board of the Swiss Association of Actuaries


• 01/2006-12/2010: Scientific Editor of the Bulletin of the Swiss Association of Actuaries (Bulletin SAA)


• 01/2010-12/2010: Editorial Board of Blätter DGVFM