Silvana Pesenti

Incredibly honoured to be named the 2022 Rising Star in Quant Finance by Risk.net for the paper Portfolio Optimisation within a Wasserstein Ball. Read the full interview: here.

I have a 2 year postdoctoral fellowship opportunity in my research team. The postdoctoral fellow will be supervised jointly with Prof. Melina Mailhot from Concordia University and working on topics related to risk measurement of extreme value events.

For further information and the application process, see https://www.concordia.ca/sgs/postdoctoral-fellows/funding/horizon/open-positions/11004.html

The 2021 Student Research Competition of the Risk and Insurance Studies Centre is open. Submissions are due on Oct. 15.

Excited to lead together with Melina Mailhot a Collaborative Research Team Project on risk assessment of insurable natural disasters sponsored by CANSSI.

This is a 3-year collaboration with Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI), the Canadian Institute of Actuaries, and the Autorité des Marchés Financiers.

… and many more women in statistical sciences in Ontario, Canada: https://canssiontario.utoronto.ca/celebrating-women-in-statistics-in-ontario/