Magazine date:
Dec 2023 
As it has done every year since 1996, SCOR rewards the best research work in the actuarial field.
The French group has granted the 2023 awards to several candidates from different countries.
| Winners | Country | Award date | Award-winning dissertations and theses |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thom van Rijn | Switzerland | 29 September | Pandemics, wars and more: how to correct for singular events in mortality forecasting models |
| Asmir Prepic | Sweden | 13 October | Application and comparison of machine learning and traditional methods to insurance pricing in scarce data environments |
| Abraham Hernández-Pacheco and Roberto Carcache-Flores | Spain and Portugal | 18 October | Mitigating flood risk with CAT Bonds: A New Orleans case study |
| Carmen Boado-Penas, Julia Eisenberg, Sule Sahin and Georges Tzougas | Spain and Portugal | 18 October | Social risk management during the first stage of a pandemic: application to COVID-19 |
| Simon Pojer | Germany | 4 December | Analysis of risk models driven by certain Poisson cluster processes |
| Philipp Aigner | Germany | 4 December | Essays on the scenario-based measurement of financial risks |
| Laura Bader | Germany | 4 December | Modelling of transition probabilities for lapse and waiver of premium |
| Saverio Belvedere | Italy | 13 December | Modelling cybersecurity insurance |
| Valentina Caliri | Italy | 13 December | Markov models for heat wave risk assessment: a case-study under extreme dependency conditions |
| Antoine Heranval | France | 13 December | Contribution of insurance data to the study of natural risks |
| Mulah Moriah | France | 13 December | Measuring and mitigating bias: towards genuinely fair non-life pricing |
Researchers and PhD students wishing to submit their research for the 2024 edition of the SCOR Actuarial Awards are invited to visit the following link: https://www.scor.com/en/actuarial-awards [4]