Biography:Claudia Klüppelberg

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Short description: German mathematician (born 1953)
Claudia Klüppelberg
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Klüppelberg in 2010
Born (1953-05-23) May 23, 1953 (age 71)
Alma materUniversity of Mannheim
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics, Statistics
InstitutionsUniversity of Mainz
Technical University of Munich
ThesisSubexponentielle Verteilungen und Charakterisierungen verwandter Klassen (1987)
Doctoral advisorHorand Störmer
Paul Embrechts

Claudia Klüppelberg (born May 23, 1953) is a German mathematical statistician and applied probability theorist, known for her work in risk assessment and statistical finance. She is a professor emerita of mathematical statistics at the Technical University of Munich.[1]

Education and career

Klüppelberg completed a doctorate in 1987 at the University of Mannheim.[1] Her dissertation, Subexponentielle Verteilungen und Charakterisierungen verwandter Klassen, was jointly supervised by Horand Störmer and Paul Embrechts.[2]

She earned her habilitation in 1993 at ETH Zurich. Then, she became a professor of applied statistics at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, and moved to the Technical University of Munich in 1997. She retired to become a professor emerita in 2019.[1]

Books

Klüppelberg is the co-author of

  • Modelling Extremal Events: for Insurance and Finance (with Paul Embrechts and Thomas Mikosch, Springer, 1997)[3]

She is the co-editor of

  • Complex Stochastic Systems (edited with Ole Barndorff-Nielsen and David R. Cox, Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2001)[4]
  • Risk - A Multidisciplinary Introduction (edited with Daniel Straub and Isabell M. Welpe, Springer, 2014)

Recognition

Klüppelberg was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Bavarian state order Pro meritis scientiae et litterarum (de) in 2001.[1] She is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics,[5] and was a Medallion Lecturer of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 2009.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Prof. Dr. Claudia Klüppelberg", Professors (Technical University of Munich), http://www.professoren.tum.de/en/klueppelberg-claudia/, retrieved 2019-09-12 
  2. Claudia Klüppelberg at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. Reviews of Modelling Extremal Events:
    • Maller, R. A. (1998), "none", Mathematical Reviews, doi:10.1007/978-3-642-33483-2, ISBN 978-3-642-08242-9 
    • Scotto, M. G. (1998), "none", Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series D (The Statistician) 47 (4): 709–710 
    • Martin-Löf, Anders (January 1999), "none", Extremes 1 (3): 365–366, doi:10.1023/A:1009990003413 
    • Pinkham, Roger (June 1999), "none", SIAM Review 41 (2): 399–400 
    • Norberg, Ragnar (November 1998), "none", ASTIN Bulletin 28 (2): 285–286, doi:10.2143/AST.28.2.519071 
    • Corcoran, Jem N (March 2002), "none", Journal of the American Statistical Association 97 (457): 360, doi:10.1198/jasa.2002.s455 
    • Malinovskii, V. K. (January 2002), Theory of Probability and its Applications, 46 (4 ed.), pp. 750–751, doi:10.1137/S0040585X97979391 
  4. Review of Complex Stochastic Systems:
    • Sheehan, N. (June 2001), "none", Biometrics 57 (2): 651–652 
  5. Honored IMS Fellows, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, https://www.imstat.org/honored-ims-fellows/, retrieved 2019-09-11