Hans-Joachim Zwiesler

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Hans-Joachim Zwiesler (born March 2, 1957 in Heidenheim an der Brenz ) is a German mathematician and university professor . The main focus of his work is insurance and risk management .

Career

After graduating from high school , Zwiesler , who came from near Ulm , began studying mathematics at Ulm University in 1975 . He finished this after, among other things, a stay abroad at Syracuse University in the summer of 1980. He then remained in the scientific enterprise and received his doctorate in 1983 with Wolfgang Jurkat in Ulm and Syracuse. In 1990 he received his habilitation at the Ulm chair for corporate planning with Peter Gessner . Subsequently, he worked as a private lecturer at the University of Ulm and, together with Gessner, built up the research and study focus on insurance and financial services as part of the business mathematics course . In 1999 he was appointed adjunct professor. He later rose to become a full professor and took over the management of the Institute for Finance and Actuarial Sciences (IFA) at the University of Ulm. Parallel to his teaching activities in Germany, he was visiting professor at Syracuse University and the University of California, San Diego .

Since 2005, Zwiesler has been a member of the board of the German Society for Insurance and Financial Mathematics . As a juror, he participates in the awarding of the renowned SCOR Prize for actuarial science initiated by the French reinsurer SCOR .

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  1. Biographical data from Hans-Joachim Zwiesler in: Wer ist Wer - Das deutsche Who's Who 2000/2001 . 39th edition, Schmidt-Römhild, Verlagsgruppe Beleke, Lübeck 2000, p. 1585, ISBN 978-3-7950-2029-3 .
  2. idw-online.de: “Apl. Professor " (July 8, 2010)