Can you tell us about role?
I am a Professor of Mathematics and Director of the Institute for Financial and Actuarial Mathematics, in the Department of Mathematical Sciences, at the University of Liverpool.
Can you tell us about your career to date?
Prior to being an academic, I worked as an actuary and led the life insurance department of one of the first private Romanian insurance companies. Since 2013, together with Professor Severine Arnold of HEC Lausanne, I have organised the PARTY conferences for young researchers (unil.ch/party). During 2013-2016 I coordinated the RARE network, within a four year EU Framework 7 project, connecting 12 international institutions of great repute, to work on the theoretical side of the analysis of ruin probabilities in case of disasters or extreme shocks for insurance-like risk pools, by the introduction and analysis of new risk measures, and by (asymptotic) quantification of aggregated risk (www.liverpool.ac.uk/institute-for-financial-and-actuarial-mathematics/research/rare/).
Since 2018, I have regularly been teaching and supervising MSc students from the African Institute of Mathematical Science (AIMS) network.
In 2020, I was one of the two academics named on the 100 Women to Watch list of the Cranfield University’s School of Management, as ideally suited to board positions on FTSE 350 companies.
I serve as an associate editor in a number of actuarial journals and is part of the publicity team of Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability.
Do you have any areas of expertise/research?
Some of my more recent research interests are around fair insurance pricing when gender is not considered a factor, as well as financial inclusion, specifically fair pricing and regulation of microfinance and microinsurance practices.
During my sabbatical year, 2022-23, I was a visiting scholar within the Social Finance Programme, International Labour Organization, United Nations.
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