Sebastian Engelke
Associate Professor of Statistics
Research Center for Statistics
,
University of Geneva
Boulevard du Pont d’Arve 40
1205 Geneva, Switzerland
Email: firstname.lastname@unige.ch
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Education & Work
2021 –
Associate Professor at
Research Center for Statistics
, University of Geneva.
2018 – 2021
Assistant Professor at
Research Center for Statistics
, University of Geneva.
2018 – 2019
Visiting Professor at
Department of Statistical Sciences
, University of Toronto.
2015 – 2018
SNSF Ambizione
Research Fellow at
EPFL
. Project:
Risk and Complex Events: from Probability to Applications
.
2013 – 2015
Senior Researcher and Lecturer at
Chair of Statistics, EPFL
and
Department of Actuarial Science, University of Lausanne
.
2009 – 2013
PhD (summa cum laude) as fellow of
Deutsche Telekom Foundation
at
University of Göttingen
.
2004 – 2009
Studies in Mathematics at
University of Göttingen
and
UC Berkeley
.
Awards & Grants
2023
Gumbel lecture
at the
German Statistical Week
.
2021
Lambert Award
of the Swiss Statistical Society.
2020 – 2025
SNSF Eccellenza grant
on "Graph structures, sparsity and high-dimensional inference for extremes"; personal career grant over 5 years.
2019
Fields Research Fellowship
for a three-month stay at
The Fields Institute
in Toronto.
2019
Honourable mention in
Bernoulli Society New Researcher Award 2019.
2019
Grant of the
Green Leaves Education Foundation
for a 8-month stay of PhD student Edossa Merga (Hawassa University, Ethiopia) in Geneva.
2015 – 2018
SNSF Ambizione
Research Fellowship; personal career grant over 3 years.
2017
SNSF Grant
for Scientific Conferences; Workshop on
Risk Quantification and Extreme Values in Applications
.
2016
ECI Award for Best Presentation; 9th ERCIM Conference in Seville, Spain.
2013
Dissertation prize; Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Göttingen.
2009 – 2012
Fellowship of
Deutsche Telekom Foundation
; PhD grant over 3 years.
2007 – 2008
Education Abroad Program; Scholarship for tuition at University of California, Berkeley.
Conference organization
2019
Workshop on
Causality and Extremes
(jointly with
Valérie Chavez-Demoulin
,
Anthony C. Davison
and
Philippe Naveau
), EPFL, Switzerland.
2017
Workshop on
Risk Quantification and Extreme Values in Applications
(jointly with
Valérie Chavez-Demoulin
and
Anthony C. Davison
), EPFL, Switzerland.
Winter school on
Recent Advances in Extremes
(jointly with
Léo Belzile
and
Anthony C. Davison
), EPFL, Switzerland.
Invited Talks
2019
Environment and Climate Change Canada, Toronto, Canada.
Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
Department of Mathmatics and Statistics, University of Guelph, Canada.
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Sciences, University of Waterloo, Canada.
Department of Mathematics, UQA Montreal, Canada.
Plenary speaker at
Climate Informatics Conference
in Paris, France.
Lecturer at
Training School on Statistical Modelling of Compound Events
, Como, Italy.
ISI World Statistics Congress
, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
11th Conference on Extreme Value Analysis
, Zagreb, Croatia.
Oberwolfach Workshop on Foundations and New Horizons for Causal Inference
, Oberwolfach, Germany.
Colloquium on Mathematical Statistics and Stochastic Processes, Hamburg, Germany.
Workshop on Extremal Trends in Weather
, Gregynog, UK.
Department of Economic Policy, Universita Cattolica, Milan, Italy.
Workshop on Assessment of ensemble forecasts, Aussois CNRS center, France.
2018
GERAD Seminar
, Montreal, Canada.
Data, Models and Statistical Inference
, workshop in honour of Anthony C. Davison, EPFL, Switzerland.
Self-Similarity, Long-Range Dependence and Extremes
, Casa Matemática Oaxaca, Mexico.
Rare Events, Extremes and Machine Learning Workshop
, Paris, France.
5th British-German Frontiers of Science Symposium
, Royal Society at the De Vere Wotton House, Dorking, UK.
School of Mathematics and Statistics, Newcastle, UK.
Research Center for Statistics, Geneva, Switzerland.
Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto, Canada.
Applied Probability and Risk Seminar
, Columbia University, New York, USA.
2017
10th ERCIM Conference, London, UK.
Modern Statistics for Complex Data Structures, KAUST, Saudi Arabia.
10th Conference on Extreme Value Analysis
, Delft, Netherlands.
IDEA Workshop, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Swiss Statistics Seminar
, Bern, Switzerland.
Thiele Seminar, Aarhus University, Denmark.
RiskLab, ETH Zürich, Switzerland.
Seminar for Statistics, ETH Zürich, Switzerland.
Pierre and Marie Curie University (Paris 6), France.
Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto, Canada.
Department of Mathematical Science, Chalmers University, Sweden.
2016
9th ERCIM Conference
, Sevilla, Spain.
Workshop on Conditional Independence Structures and Extremes
, Munich, Germany.
German Statistical Week
, Augsburg, Germany.
Workshop on Extremes and Risks in Higher Dimensions
, Lorentz Center, Leiden, Netherlands.
4th IMS-APR Meeting, Hong Kong.
Uncertainty Modeling in the Analysis of Weather, Climate and Hydrological Extremes, Banff Research Station, Canada.
Workshop on Dependence, Stability and Extremes, Fields Institute, Toronto, Canada.
Research Center for Statistics, University of Geneva, Switzerland.
Risk Lab, ETH Zürich, Switzerland.
Institute of Statistics, LMU München, Germany.
2015
8th ERCIM Conference, London, UK.
9th Conference on Extreme Value Analysis, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
Department of Biostatistics and Spatial Processes, INRA Avignon, France.
Institute of Stochastics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany.
Laboratoire de Mathématiques, Université de Franche-Comté, France
2014
7th ERCIM Conference, Pisa, Italy.
Workshop on High-dimensional and Multivariate Extremes, Bristol, UK.
2nd Conference of the International Society for Nonparametric Statistics, Cadiz, Spain.
Institute of Statistics, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
Institute of Mathematical Statistics and Actuarial Science, Universität Bern, Switzerland.
School of Business Informatics and Mathematics, Universität Mannheim, Germany.
Institute of Financial and Insurance Sciences, University of Lyon, France