Curriculum vitae

• Associate Professor,  University of Copenhagen; Denmark, 2023.

• Postdoc, University of Copenhagen; Denmark, 2022.

• Senior SNF researcher, University of Lausanne; Switzerland, 2020-2022.

• Specialist Pricing Actuary, Vaudoise Assurances; Switzerland, 2021.

• Lecturer, University of Lausanne; Switzerland, 2019-2020 & 2021.

Education

Doctorate, University of Lausanne; Switzerland, 2017-2020

Dissertation: Statistics of extremes, matrix distributions and applications to non-life insurance modeling. 

Supervisor: Hansjörg Albrecher.

Master's degree, University of Copenhagen; Denmark, 2015-2017

Dissertation: Reverse-Martingale Characterisations of Symmetric Laws. 

Supervisor: Steffen Lauritzen.

Bachelor's degree, National Autonomous University of Mexico; Mexico, 2012-2015

Dissertation: Levy Processes and Excursion Theory.

Supervisor: José Luis Pérez Garmendia.

Awards

• GAUSS Actuarial Award. GAUSS-Nachwuchspreis Actuarial Award prize for PhD dissertation, June 2021.

• SCOR Actuarial Award. First prize for PhD dissertation, August, 2020.

• Prix de la Faculte. Faculty award from the University of Lausanne for PhD dissertation, January 2021.

• Gabino Barreda Medal. Best performance for Bachelor studies in Mathematics, May 29, 2018.

• Mathematical Olympiad. First place in the 23rd Federal District Mexican Mathematical Olympiad, held on May 18, 2009 (age 15).

Reviewing

I have served as a reviewer for the following journals:

• Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

• Scandinavian Actuarial Journal

• Insurance, Mathematics & Economics

• Bernoulli

• Extremes

• Quantitative Finance

• European Actuarial Journal

• ASTIN Bulletin: The Journal of the IAA

• Journal of Statistical Software

• Statistics and Computing

• Stochastic Models

• Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability

• Risks

I have served as a book reviewer for Springer.

Supervision

• Reserving through informed censoring. Master thesis by Sean Kristian Cheah Wernbecker (co-supervised by Munir Hiabu). University of Copenhagen, 2023.

• Statistical methods for insurance. Doctorate by Alaric Müller (co-supervised by Hansjörg Albrecher). University of Lausanne, 2021-2023.

• Penalised likelihood methods for phase-type dimension selection. Master thesis by Alaric Müller (co-supervised by Hansjörg Albrecher). University of Lausanne, 2021.

• Bivariate phase-type modeling of joint lives. Master thesis by Quentin Ruel (co-supervised by Hansjörg Albrecher). University of Lausanne, 2021.

Consulting