Rolf GruetterAwards:
1999 Young Investigator Award Plenary Lectureship
, International Society for Neurochemistry
2011 Fellow
, ESMRMB
2011 Teaching Award
, Section Sciences de la Vie, EPFL
Damir FilipovicDamir Filipovic holds the Swissquote Chair in Quantitative Finance and is Swiss Finance Institute Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. Prior to this, he was head of the Vienna Institute of Finance and professor at the University of Vienna. He previously held the chair of financial and insurance mathematics at the University of Munich, and he was on the faculty of Princeton University. He received his Ph.D. in mathematics from ETH Zurich in 2000. Damir Filipovic worked as a scientific consultant for the Swiss Federal Office of Private Insurance from 2003 to 2004. There he co-developed the Swiss Solvency Test, which defines the regulatory capital requirement for all Swiss based insurance companies and groups. He is on the editorial board of several academic journals. His research interests include the term structure of interest rates, credit and volatility risk, quantitative methods in risk management, and stochastic processes. His papers have been published in a variety of academic journals including the Journal of Financial Economics, Mathematical Finance, Finance and Stochastics, and the Annals of Applied Probability. He is the author of a textbook titled Term-Structure Models.
Johannes HentschelJohannes Hentschel studied music education, music theory, and Romance studies in Freiburg i. Br., Lübeck, and Helsinki. Proficient as an accordionist, singer and conductor, he is a lecturer for music theory at music universities. In 2018, however, he suspended this activity for the Digital Humanities Doctoral Program at the Swiss Federal Insititute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL). Supervised by Prof. Dr. Martin Rohrmeier at the Digital and Cognitive Musicology Lab (DCML), Johannes is preparing a thesis on diachronic style change in music while deepening his knowledge in corpus building and metadata organization.
