Hanspeter Schmidli is Professor of Stochastics and Actuarial Mathematics at the University of Cologne, Germany. He is one of the leading experts in the areas of optimization in insurance and ruin theory. He has published intensively in risk theory and related fields, having (co-)authored Stochastic Control in Insurance (Springer, 2008) and Stochastic Processes for Insurance and Finance (Wiley, 1999), which continue to be widely used resources.
