PostDocs
Risk Center PostDocs are involved in Seed Projects and are supervised by at least two Risk Center Professors.
Current PostDocs
Dr. Sandra Andraszewicz
Sandra is a senior researcher and a project leader in behavioral finance at the Chair of Cognitive Science of ETH Zurich. She graduated from the University of Utrecht, University of Edinburgh, University of Basel and AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, where she studied cognitive sciences, statistical and empirical methods and risk management. Her research focuses on human behavior, risk taking, decision making, investment and impact of complex uncertain events on individual decision processes. Within the ETH Risk Center, Sandra supervised a project on expert judgment within the Risk Case Study Challenge with Credit Suisse, gave a lecture within the course Introduction to Risk Modelling and Management and is a leading researcher in the Future Resilience Program within the Singapore-ETH Center. Also, she offers a course in understanding human behavior for students of master of Advanced Studies. Sandra actively collaborates with the Risk Center partners, such as SwissRe and Zurich Insurance on the educational and knowledge exchange basis.
Dr. Panagiotis Galanis
Seed Project: Managing the Risk of Business Interruption from Natural Hazards
Panagiotis Galanis received his diploma in 2008 from the Civil Engineering Department of the National Technical University of Athens. He pursued doctoral studies in Applied Mathematics at University of California, Berkeley focusing on the quantitative risk analysis and management of extreme natural hazards where he earned his PhD in 2014. His research interests lie in the areas of applying mathematical and statistical methods to quantify the risk of extreme natural events and using financial and engineering risk management strategies to reduce their impact.
Dr. Jan Nagler
Seed Project: Controlling Percolation in Complex Networked Systems by Strategic Interventions
Jan Nagler studied physics in Kiel, Germany (thesis on self-organized criticality) and completed his PhD in Bremen, Germany (thesis on three-body-problem). His scientific stations include positions at Boston University, USA (PostDoc on complex economic systems), the Max-Planck-Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Goettingen, Germany (focus on nonlinear dynamics and stochastic systems) and ETH Zurich (focus on phase transitions in complex systems). His research focuses on the understanding and control of stochastic systems, with applications at the interface between physics, biology, sociology and economics, in particular phase transitions and tipping points, ergodicity breaking and estimation of risk in uncertain environments.
Dr. Emiliano Torre
Seed Project: Copulas for Big Data Analysis in Engineering Sciences
Emiliano Torre received his BSc. and MSc. in Mathematics from the University of Torino in 2011 with a thesis on copula-based stochastic diffusion models. He then pursued a PhD (2011-2016) in computational neuroscience at the Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6) and the Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-6), working on hybrid statistical and data mining techniques for pattern discovery in massively parallel point processes. Since September 2016, Emiliano is a post-doc at the Chair of Risk, Safety and Uncertainty Quantification, working with Prof. Bruno Sudret and Prof. Paul Embrechts on copula-based methods for stochastic modelling of high-dimensional dependence structures.