Curriculum vitae
Experience
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
TEST
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
Developed a semi-parametric survival regression model for forecasting outstanding life expectancies for a Zurich-based start-up. 2021-2022.