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Welcome to Prof. Liang Peng, the Thomas P Bowles chair professor of actuarial science in the Maurice R. Greenberg School of Risk Science in the Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University, who has been granted a Fellow in Residence with CY Advanced Studies to work at ESSEC CREAR & IDO dpt from March to June 2025

Congratulations to:

• • Prof. Pierre Jacob, who has been awarded an ERC consolidator grant in December 2024 to work on unbiased MCMC, and to Dr. Mikolaj Kasprzak, who obtained a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual (Global) Fellowship.

  • Prof. Paul Embrechts (Member of the CREAR Scientific Board) for his last book, co-authored with Dr. Marius Hofert and Prof. Valérie Chavez-Demoulin: `Risk Revealed: Cautionary Tales, Understanding and Communication' (Cambridge Univ. Press, June 2024) 

  • Dr. Michel Dacorogna (Member of the CREAR Scientific Board) for his last book, co-authored with Dr. Lars Jaeger : 'Where is Science Leading Us?' (Springer, Feb. 2024);  "Wohin führt uns die Wissenschaft?" (Springer, German Ed., Nov. 2024) 

  • Prof. Jeremy Heng,  winner of the Blackwell-Rosenbluth Award 2022, recognizing outstanding junior Bayesian researchers based on their overall contribution to the field and to the community  

  • Prof. Pierre Jacob, who has been awarded in 2021 the Royal Statistical Society’s Guy Medal in Bronze for his innovative and fundamental contributions to Bayesian and computational statistics 

  • Clara Adiceom (ESSEC Actuaire 2019), who received a special mention at the Prix SCOR 2020 des Jeunes Actuaires for her actuarial master thesis

  • Dr Marcel Bräutigam, who received one of the two special mentions at the Prix des Sciences du Risque 2020 for his doctoral thesis.