Post Doc in actuarial science - Belgium

The Universite libre de Bruxelles and the Universite catholique de Louvain invite applications for a post-doctoral fellowship, see for details :

http://www.ulb.ac.be/facs/sciences/math/job.html

This postdoctoral research position will start on October 1, 2016 (or eventually on a date to be discussed with the candidates). This position will be for one year in the Actuarial Sciences Service of the Department of Mathematics of Universit? libre de Bruxelles, and can possibly be prolonged in the Actuarial Sciences Group of the Institut de Statistique, Biostatistique et Sciences Actuarielles of the Universit? catholique de Louvain until September 30, 2018.

The position is funded by the FNRS Cross-University PDR (Projet de Recherche) on "Risk Management and Pricing in Finance and Insurance". Examples of research topics included in this project are: interest rate modelling, valuation and risk management in finance and insurance.

Candidates for the PDR Postdoctoral Fellowship should hold a PhD in mathematics, statistics, actuarial sciences or a closely related subject on the date of the start of the contract and are expected to have proven research ability in actuarial sciences, with in particular a research interest in risk management, risk measurement, interest rates structures and quantitative finance.

The closing date for applications is on 30 September 2016.