News | August 24, 2015
New Scientist nomination for TI alumnus Roger Laeven
TI alumnus Roger Laeven (2005) has been nominated by The New Scientist for a research prize for the most promising researcher in The Netherlands and Belgium across all disciplines under age 40.
A professional jury selected 25 candidates, out of 50 researchers that had been nominated by universities in The Netherlands and Belgium. The jury selection was based on academic and societal impact, originality and topicality.
As of August 18 the public can cast their votes for the top 25 of most promising researchers (until September 7). The decision in the current and final round will be based on a jury report (50%) and public opinion (50%).
About Roger Laeven
Roger Laeven (1979) is Full Professor (Chair of Risk and Insurance) at the Department of Quantitative Economics, University of Amsterdam. Roger holds an MSc (Fields: Actuarial Science and Econometrics, With highest honors) and a PhD (Fields: Actuarial Science and Econometrics, With highest honors), both from the University of Amsterdam. In 2004, he was a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics, Department of Statistics, and from 2007-date he is a visiting research fellow at Princeton University, Bendheim Center for Finance. From 2001-2005, he was a part-time consultant for Mercer Oliver Wyman, and from 2007-2011, he was a tenured Associate Professor at Tilburg University.
Roger’s PhD thesis was awarded the Christiaan Huygens Prize 2007 by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). In 2006, Roger was awarded a VENI grant by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) for his research project Measurement of Multivariate Risk in Insurance and Finance, and in 2009 he was awarded a VIDI grant by NWO for his research project Econometrics of Contagion in Insurance and Finance.