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I am a professor in actuarial science and insurance analytics at KU Leuven. I am also a (part-time) professor in actuarial data science with the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands.

KU Leuven profile and UvA profile

News

October 2026: I will visit the University of Luxembourg and the Luxembourg Institute of Actuaries. Hosts: Heloise Labit and Christophe Ley.

2025-2026: I delivered keynotes for

• MathsInFinance2026 at Skukuza, organized by North West University, the University of Pretoria and the University of Cape Town
• the actuarial association in Peru (online)
• MAF2026 at the Centre de Recerca Matemàtica in Barcelona
• EuroWorkingGroup at Naples Partenope University
• MatRisk2025 at Sorbonne (Paris)

August 1, 2025: I started as vice-dean for education and students at FEB, KU Leuven. Together with the dean, the other vice-deans and the administrative director we wrote the new policy plan ‘Samen Slim Schakelen’ / ‘Cleverly Connecting and Coordinating’.

May 2025: our paper “The short-term association between environmental variables and mortality: evidence from Europe ”, co-authored with Jens Robben and Torsten Kleinow, has been published in the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A. url