Walter Saxer Prize 2023

The 2023 Walter Saxer Prize goes to Gabriele Visentin for his doctoral thesis and to Rebecca Morger for her Master's thesis. Congratulations!

15.03.2023 by Monika Krichel, RiskLab

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Laureates

Dr Gabriele Visentin

Received the prize for his doctoral thesis:
DownloadEssays on portfolio credit risk (PDF, 1.4 MB)

Supervised by Professor Ashkan Nikeghbali (University of Zurich)

Rebecca Morger

Received the prize for her Master's thesis:
DownloadImputation algorithms with principal component analysis for financial data (PDF, 2.8 MB)

Supervised by Professor Patrick Cheridito (D-MATH), Dr Pawel Kuczera and Dr Philipp Arbenz (SCOR).

The award ceremony of the 2023 Walter Saxer-Versicherungs-Hochschulpreis (Insurance prize) took place at ETH Zurich. At this occasion, Philipp Muri, Head of Insurance Supervision Division at the Federal Office of Public Health gave a talk on "Steigende Gesundheitskosten: Müssen wir uns an stärker steigende Krankenkassenprämien gewöhnen?".

Philipp Muri, Patrick Cheridito, Rebecca Morger, Gabriele Visentin, Ashkan Nikeghbali, Hansjörg Furrer — From left: Philipp Muri, Patrick Cheridito, Rebecca Morger, Gabriele Visentin, Ashkan Nikeghbali and Hansjörg Furrer, President of the prize committee (Photograph: ETH Risk Center)