Magazine date:
Dec 2022 
Since 1996, SCOR has been rewarding the best research work in the field of actuarial science. The French reinsurance group has awarded the 2022 prizes to candidates in five countries: Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland and Sweden.
Designed to promote actuarial science in insurance and reinsurance, this event is financed by the SCOR Corporate Foundation for Science, chaired by André Lévy-Lang.
For the year 2022, the prizes have been awarded to the following nine candidates:
| Winners | Country and date of attribution of the award | Establishment | Award-winning dissertations and theses |
|---|---|---|---|
| Léonard Vincent | 7 October Switzerland | University of Lausanne | Model Uncertainty, Tail Risk and Structured Reinsurance |
| Lina Palmborg | 14 October Sweden | Stockholm University | Financial position and performance in IFRS 17 |
| François Hu | 13 December France | Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l’Administration Economique | Semi-supervised learning in insurance: fairness and active learning |
| Stella Jovet | 13 December France | National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts (CNAM) | Optimization of the profitability of natural catastrophe risks using a genetic algorithm: application to a Mexican hurricane portfolio |
| Gabriele Omari | 14 December Italy | University of Trieste | Fair pricing of profit-sharing life insurance contract portfolios |
| Andrea Santoro | 14 December Italy | University of Rome | On the estimation of surrender frequencies: methodological evolutions for dynamic policyholder behavior analysis |
| Mark Kiermayer | 15 December Germany | University of Ulm | Machine and deep learning in present actuarial challenges |
| Simon Schnürch | 15 December Germany | Technical University of Kaiserslautern | Mortality Modeling: Machine Learning and Mortality Shocks |
| Arne Freimann | 15 December Germany | University of Ulm | Pricing, Hedging, and the Roles of Different Market Players in the Longevity Risk Transfer Market |
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