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Thorsten Schmidt

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Thorsten Schmidt is Professor for Mathematical Stochastics at University Freiburg (successor of Ernst Eberlein) and Senior Financial Engineer at MathFinance. From 2017-2019 he was fellow of the Freiburg institute of Advanced Studies (FRIAS). Prior to this he was professor for Mathematical Finance at Chemnitz University of Technology since 2008, held a replacement Professorship from Technical University Munich in 2008 and was Associate Professor at University of Leipzig from 2004 on. Besides many stays at leading universities, he was guest professor at ETH Zurich and at Université d'Evry.

His Ph.D. he obtained from University in Giessen in 2003 on credit risk. He is Associate Editor for Mathematical Finance, International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance and was Associate Editor for Journal of Banking and Finance and Statistical and Probability Letters. He is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute and was member of the Board of Fachgruppe Stochastik of the German Mathematical Society. 

With numerous articles in the areas of Mathematical Finance and Probability in internationally leading journals and frequent presentations on conferences around the world, he is a well-known scientist in the area of affine models, interest rates, credit risk, incomplete information, risk management, filtering, and insurance mathematics. He has a strong background in statistics and information technology and teaches probability, mathematical finance and machine learning at the university of Freiburg. 

SFB "Small Data"

In the Collaborative Research Center (Sonderforschungsbereich - SFB in German)  Small Data Thorsten is jointly working with Harald Binder on a medical question where the time evolution of a disease has to be estimated, while only a few time points per individual are available. The goal is to combine probabilistic methods with methods from machine learning to obtain error rates and reliable estimates for this question. 
 

Awards

IDA Award Finance aus der Praxisperspektive, gemeinsam mit Eva Lütkebohmert-Holtz (2015)

FRIAS-USIAS Research Fellow: Linking Finance and Insurance, 2017/2018

IDA Award Maschinelles Lernen und künstliche Intelligenz in Freiburg mit Philipp Harms und Frank Hutter (2020)

MAPFRE Research Grant Ignacio H. de Larramendi: affine processes for insurances linked to financial markets mit Raquel Gaspar (2020) 

Luis Bachelier Fellow (2021)

Aktuelles

 25.05.2023 DFG fördert den SFB Small Data mit 12 Mio EUR.
 28.10.2022 Schülertage der Mathematik am Mathematischen Institut - Finanzmathematik und ML sind mit dabei!
 01.08.2022 Thorsten Schmidt ist Mitglied im Rat der Bachelier Finance Society
 07.07.2022 Das Projekt LeanAI wird von der Vector-Stiftung gefördert.
 01.05.2022 Conference on the Interplay between Insurance and Finance, May 2022 in Lisbon.
 14.04.2022  Open PhD Position in the ReScale Project
 01.04.2022  Prof. Schmidt hat mit Kollegen einen  Grant der Carl-Zeiss Stiftung eingeworben ReScale.


Publications
may be found here (or by clicking "English" on the top of the page).
 

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Lehre

 

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Forschungsschwerpunkte

  • Finanzmathematik
  • Kreditrisiken
  • Pricing und Hedging von derivativen Finanzprodukten
  • Statistik von stochastischen Prozessen
  • Energiemärkte
  • Nichtlineare Filtertheorie 
  • Statistische Anwendungen
  • Maschinelles Lernen

  

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Adresse: 

Abteilung für Mathematische Stochastik 
Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg 
Ernst-Zermelo-Straße 1
Zimmer 247
D - 79104 Freiburg

Tel: +49-761-203-5668
Tel: +49-7861-203-5669 (Sekretariat: Frau Hattenbach)
Fax: +49-761-203-5661 
E-Mail: thorsten[dot]schmidt[at]stochastik[dot]uni-freiburg[dot]de