KTH Mathematics  


Curriculum Vitae

Filip Lindskog


Born on October 20, 1975 in Stockholm, Sweden.

Address:   Department of Mathematics
Royal Institute of Technology
SE - 100 44 Stockholm
Sweden
tel. +46 8 790 72 17
email:   lindskog@math.kth.se
    www.math.kth.se/~lindskog
 

1. Education
 
ETH Zürich Dr. Sc. Math. 2004
KTH Stockholm MSc in Engineering Physics 2000
 
2. Employment
 
KTH Stockholm Postdoctoral fellow October 2004
ETH Zürich Postdoctoral fellow January 2004
ETH Zürich PhD student January 2001
ETH Zürich Researcher at RiskLab February 2000
 
3. Research interests
    Applied probability, asymptotic theory, stochastic processes, multivariate extreme value theory, dependence modeling, risk management, insurance mathematics, mathematical finance.
4. Prizes 5. Professional activities

5.1. Consulting for private industry
    Audit report on the Swiss Re risk management methods (with Prof. Paul Embrechts, Prof. Alexander McNeil and Enrico De Giorgi), 2002.
5.2. Referee work
    ASTIN Bulletin, Bernoulli, Communications in Statistics, Extremes, Journal of Financial Econometrics, Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, North American Actuarial Journal, REVSTAT Statistical Journal, Risk Magazine, Scandinavian Actuarial Journal, Statistics and Probability Letters, Stochastic Processes and their Applications.
6. Talks
  • Heavy-tailed insurance portfolios: ruin probabilities and buffer capital, Oberseminar Finanz- und Versicherungsmathematik, LMU and TU München, Germany, February, 2, 2006.
  • Heavy-tailed insurance portfolios: ruin probabilities and buffer capital, Stockhom University, Sweden, October, 19, 2005.
  • On Kesten's counterexample to the Cramér-Wold device for regular variation, Linköping University, Sweden, October, 5, 2005.
  • On Kesten's counterexample to the Cramér-Wold device for regular variation, Lund University, Sweden, September, 16, 2005.
  • On Kesten's counterexample to the Cramér-Wold device for regular variation, 4th Conference on Extreme Value Analysis: Probabilistic and Statistical Models and their Applications, Gothenburg, Sweden, August 17, 2005.
  • Linjärkombinationer, konstiga heltal och reguljär variation, StoUpp, Uppsala University, Sweden, June 1, 2005.
  • Regular variation and extreme events for stochastic processes, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, May 12, 2005.
  • Regular variation and extreme events for stochastic processes, Sigtuna, Sweden, April 29, 2005.
  • Large deviations and ruin probabilities for multivariate heavy-tailed risk processes, Scientific Conference on Insurance and Finance, Berlin, April 27, 2005.
  • Portfolio credit risk models, Finanskontakt, KTH Stockholm, April 20, 2005.
  • Regular variation and extreme events for stochastic processes, University of Lisbon, Portugal, January 13, 2005.
  • The grouped t-copula with an application to credit risk and related topics. Workshop: Quantitative Risk Management for Banking and Insurance, Collegium Budapest, Hungary, September 16-18, 2004.
  • Extremal behavior of regularly varying stochastic processes, conference: 3rd International Symposium on Extreme Value Analysis, University of Aveiro, Portugal, July 23, 2004.
  • Regular variation for random vectors and stochastic processes and related topics, conference: Power laws in probability and statistics, CIRM, Luminy, France, March 25, 2004.
  • On regular variation for stochastic processes, Seminar on Financial and Actuarial Mathematics, Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), Austria, December 4, 2003.
  • On regular variation for stochastic processes, Seminar on Stochastic Processes, ETH Zürich, October 29, 2003.
  • On regular variation for stochastic processes, Risk Day 2003, Zürich, October 17, 2003.
  • Multivariate Regular Variation for Additive Processes, Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, Meeting on Stochastic Analysis in Finance and Insurance, Germany, March 2-8, 2003.
  • Multivariate Regular Variation for Additive Processes, EURANDOM workshop Dependence in Extreme Value Theory, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, January 23-25, 2003.
  • Multivariate Regular Variation for Additive Processes, Forschungsseminar Finanz- und Versicherungsmathematik, LMU and TU München, Germany, November 14, 2002.
  • Multivariate Extremes, Aggregation and Dependence in Elliptical Distributions, Frankfurter MathFinance-Kolloquium, Goethe Universität, Germany, November 29, 2001.
  • Multivariate Extremes, Aggregation and Dependence in Elliptical Distributions, Risk Day 2001, ETH Zürich, October 19, 2001.
  • Multivariate Extremes and Dependence in Elliptical Distributions, Center of Advanced European Studies and Research, Bonn, Germany, July 19, 2001.
  • Multivariate Extremes and Dependence in Elliptical Distributions, RiskLab Workshop, ETH Zürich, June 7, 2001.
  • Applying Copula Ideas to Market and Credit Stress Testing, Workshop on Advanced Stress Testing, New York, February 12, 2001.
  • Applying Copula Ideas to Market and Credit Stress Testing, Workshop on Advanced Stress Testing, London, February 5, 2001.
  • Modelling Dependent Credit Risks, Maths Week 2000, London, November 30, 2000.
  • Modelling Dependent Credit Risks, Maths Week 2000, New York, November 16, 2000.
  • Common Poissin Shock Models: Applications to Insurance and Credit Risk Modelling, Risk Day 2000, Zürich, October 20, 2000.
  • Modelling Dependence with Copulas and Applications to Risk Management, Workshop, Stochastic Approaches in Finance, Insurance and Physics, TU München, September 27-29, 2000.
  • Modelling Dependence with Copulas and Applications to Risk Management, RiskLab Workshop, ETH Zürich, May 4, 2000.
  • Modelling Dependence with Copulas and Applications to Risk Management, Swiss Re, Zürich, April 28, 2000.
  • Modelling Dependence with Copulas and Applications to Risk Management, ETH Zürich, March 17, 2000.
7. Courses taught
  • Risk Management
  • Seminar on Non-Life Insurance Mathematics
  • Extreme Value Theory
8. Publications
  • 2005. Hult, H, Lindskog, F.:
    Extremal behavior of stochastic integrals driven by regularly varying Lévy processes
    Accepted for publication in The Annals of Probability.
  • 2006. Hult, H, Lindskog, F.:
    On regular variation for infinitely divisible random vectors and additive processes
    Advances in Applied Probability 38(1), 134-148.
  • 2006. Hult, H, Lindskog, F.:
    On Kesten's counterexample to the Cramér-Wold device for regular variation
    Bernoulli, 12(1), 133-142.
  • 2005. Hult, H, Lindskog, F, Mikosch, T, Samorodnitsky, G.:
    Functional large deviations for multivariate regularly varying random walks
    The Annals of Applied Probability 15(4), 2651-2680.
  • 2005. Hult, H, Lindskog, F.:
    Extremal behavior of regularly varying stochastic processes
    Stochastic Processes and their Applications 115(2), 249-274.
  • 2004. Lindskog, F.:
    Multivariate extremes and regular variation for stochastic processes
    PhD thesis. Department of Mathematics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich. Diss. ETH no. 15319
    Supervisor: Paul Embrechts.
  • 2003. Daul, S, De Giorgi, E, Lindskog, F, McNeil, A.:
    Using the grouped t-copula
    RISK Magazine 16(11), 73-76.
  • 2003. Lindskog, F, McNeil, A.:
    Common Poisson shock models: applications to insurance and credit risk modelling
    ASTIN Bulletin 33(2), 209-238.
  • 2003. Lindskog, F, McNeil, A, Schmock, U.:
    A note on Kendall's tau for elliptical distributions
    In: Credit Risk. Measurement, Evaluation and Management Eds: G. Bol, G. Nakhaeizadeh, S. Rachev, T. Ridder, K.-H. Vollmer, Physica-Verlag, A Springer-Verlag Company, Heidelberg, 149-156.
  • 2003. Embrechts, P, Lindskog, F, McNeil, A.:
    Modelling dependence with copulas and applications to Risk Management
    In: Handbook of Heavy Tailed Distributions in Finance Ed: S. Rachev, Elsevier, Chapter 8, 329-384.
  • 2002. Hult, H, Lindskog, F.:
    Multivariate extremes, aggregation and dependence in elliptical distributions
    Advances in Applied Probability 34(3), 587-608.

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Updated: 14/6-2005