SCOR has recognized actuarial research across six European countries through its 2025 Actuarial Awards, continuing a program that has run for almost three decades.
The awards aim to promote actuarial science, support academic work in risk and insurance, and advance industry understanding of emerging and traditional risks.
The prizes are presented in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland, and are regarded in the insurance and reinsurance sectors as a mark of distinction for early-career researchers.
In France, the awards are supported by the SCOR Corporate Foundation for Science, chaired by Pierre-André Chiappori.
In recent years, SCOR has also started extending the reach of the program beyond its traditional European base. The reinsurer’s latest enhancements include a new Asia-Pacific category and a scholarship initiative for actuarial undergraduates in the UK.
Award juries are made up of academics and senior professionals from insurance, reinsurance and finance. SCOR said winners are selected based on their mastery of actuarial concepts, the rigor of their analytical methods and the potential for practical application of their work in risk management.
“In an increasingly complex and dynamic risk environment, the continuous advancement of risk knowledge and management remains a cornerstone of the re/insurance industry,” said SCOR CEO Thierry Léger (pictured above).
He thanked the 2025 participants for “valuable and insightful contributions” and said the awards reflect SCOR’s “firm belief in the importance of risk-related research” over nearly 30 years.
In Switzerland, the award went to Dr. Ivan Alexis Fonseca Diaz of the University of Lausanne (UNIL) for research on optimal social security systems in the context of climate change.
In Sweden, Stockholm University’s Erik Alpsten was recognized for work on the fair dynamic valuation of insurance liabilities.
The Spain and Portugal prizes went to Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) researchers Maria José Preciado Leyva and Raúl Alonso Cancino Reyes, for work respectively on the social sustainability of health insurance and the use of artificial intelligence in early warning systems for bank default risk.
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In Germany, the jury honored three doctoral researchers: Dr. Theis Bathke of the University of Oldenburg, Dr. Sascha Günther of the University of Lausanne and Dr. Constantin Siggelkow of the Technical University of Munich.
In France, the awards recognized Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University’s Samuel Stocksieker, École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées’ Hervé Andres and Université Paris Dauphine-PSL’s Pauline Chauveau.
In Italy, the winners were Maria Margherita Corbatti of the University of Trieste and Matteo Pastore of the University of Milano-Bicocca.
