Research Group – Joël Wagner

The group of Joël Wagner contributes to the research and teaching activities of the Department of Actuarial Science and HEC Lausanne in the field of insurance. A broad range of topics from both theoretical and practical viewpoints are in the scope of research.

Current members

	Joël Wagner Full Professor
	Laura Iveth Aburto Barrera Doctoral Student Graduate Assistant	Lucien Lorenz Doctoral Student Graduate Assistant
	Antonin Beringhs Doctoral Student	Sylvain Botteron Doctoral Student
	Ion Cimbru Doctoral Student	Yashka Huggenberger Doctoral Student
	Enej Kovac Doctoral Student	Marco Maggi Doctoral Student
	Lukas Stricker Doctoral Student	[open position] Student Assistant
Visitors	none at the moment

Former members and visitors

Doctoral Students, Graduate Assistants and Senior Researchers

Anja Breuer, Doctoral Student, August 2017 – March 2023 [LinkedIn]
Thibaud Deruelle, Senior Researcher, August 2021 – Dec. 2022, now @ Université de Genève [LinkedIn]
Charbel Mirza, Doctoral Student, Aug. 2015 – July 2019, now @ Euler Hermes [LinkedIn]
Philipp Müller, Doctoral Student and Graduate Assistant, Aug. 2014 – July 2018, now @ Swiss Re [LinkedIn]
Michel Fuino, Doctoral Student, Graduate Assistant and Senior Researcher, Oct. 2015 – Aug. 2020, now @ Retraites Populaires [LinkedIn]
Raphael Iten, Doctoral Student, Feb. 2019 – June 2024, now @ Sompo [LinkedIn]
Veronika Kalouguina, Doctoral Student and Graduate Assistant, Jan. 2019 – April 2022, now @ Expedia Group [LinkedIn]
Liselotte Maichel, Doctoral Student, – Jan. 2020, now @ The Boston Consulting Group [LinkedIn]
Guillem Montoliu Montes, SNSF Doctoral Student, Aug. 2016 – November 2020 [LinkedIn]
Iegor Rudnytskyi, Doctoral Student and Graduate Assistant, Aug. 2015 – July 2019, now @ Self-employed [LinkedIn]
Aleksandr Shemendyuk, Doctoral Student and Graduate Assistant, Aug. 2019 – July 2024 [LinkedIn]
Yves Staudt, Doctoral Student and Graduate Assistant, May 2015 – August 2019, now @ Fachhochschule Graubünden [LinkedIn]
Philipp Trein, Senior Researcher, March 2019 – July 2020, now @ Université de Lausanne [LinkedIn]
Andrey Ugarte, Doctoral Student and Graduate Assistant, Aug. 2019 – Nov. 2023, now @ University of Amsterdam [LinkedIn]

Student Assistants

Malek Azzouz, Student Assistant, Feb. 2017 – Aug. 2017 [LinkedIn]
Mathieu Brusatin, Student Assistant, Aug. 2018 – Dec. 2018 [LinkedIn]
Vanessa Carrard, Student Assistant, Feb. 2019 – July 2019, Feb. 2020 – June 2020, Feb. 2021 – June 2021, Mar. 2022 – June 2022 [LinkedIn]
Léo Ferrari, Student Assistant, Feb. 2018 – July 2018, Feb. 2019 – July 2019 [LinkedIn]
Frédérique Hansen, Student Assistant, Feb. 2017 – Dec. 2017 [LinkedIn]
Eliot Jean, Student Assistant, Aug. 2016 – Aug. 2017 [LinkedIn]
Nicolas Lisita, Student Assistant, Dec. 2014 – May 2015 [LinkedIn]
Marielle Margue, Student Assistant, Feb. 2018 – July 2018 [LinkedIn]
Valentin Muller, Student Assistant, Feb. 2016 – June 2016 [LinkedIn]
Roxane Neuvecelle, Student Assistant, Feb. 2023 – June 2023 [LinkedIn]
Loïc Simonet, Student Assistant, Feb. 2016 – Jan. 2017 [LinkedIn]
Maria Elisa Vega Paez, Student Assistant, Aug. 2014 – Dec. 2014 [LinkedIn]

Visitors

Maj-Britt Nordfang, Univ. of Copenhagen (DK), Visiting PhD Student, Feb. 2015 – May 2015 & Sept. 2015 [LinkedIn]
Laura Aburto, Univ. Nacional Autónoma de México (MX), Visiting Master Student, Aug. 2018 – Oct. 2018 [LinkedIn]
Federica Botticelli, Univ. “La Sapienza” of Rome (I), Visiting Master Student, June 2015 – Aug. 2015 [LinkedIn]
Soyoung Lim, Sung Kyun Kwan University (KR), Visiting PhD Student, Nov. 2019 – March 2020
Rene Rosenberger, Technische Universität Graz (A), Visiting Master Student, Oct. 2015 – Dec. 2015 [LinkedIn]

Acknowledgements

The research group gratefully acknowledges the financial support obtained from the Swiss National Science Foundation (2015 – 2023, link) and the Swiss Insurance Association (2015 – 2023).