Believing that people should be judged by their actions and not by their words, I don't like talking about myself. 

But here it is inevitable. TASC is me, and the visitors of this site have the right to know who stands behind it.

I will make it brief, giving only the facts. Without decorating them with personal and subjective statements that can get confused for facts.

Education-wise, I hold a PhD in Statistics from UCLouvain, Belgium, with a focus on Extreme Value Theory and its application to multivariate models with interdependent variables. I also earned an MSc in Actuarial Sciences and Quantitative Finance and a BSc in Economics and Econometrics, both from Tilburg University, The Netherlands.

In 2016,  I was awarded the Johan de Witt Prize by the Royal Dutch Actuarial Society for my Master’s thesis, which applied univariate Extreme Value Theory to Value-at-Risk (VaR) estimations. Now this is subjective - I am proud of it. It was a unique experience... may be the luckiest thing ever happened to me. 

I have experience in advisory roles within actuarial consulting and gained research and teaching experience during my PhD tenure at UCLouvain. 

I am (almost) fluent in English and French and possess an intermediate proficiency in Dutch.