RiskLab Switzerland

Welcome to the home page of RiskLab Switzerland.
We focus on precompetitive, applied research in the general area of quantitative risk management for finance and insurance. The laboratory, founded in 1994 as a virtual research cooperation, was reorganized in 1999 and is now physically located in the main building of the ETH Zurich. Various members of the Department of Mathematics at the ETH Zurich are linked to RiskLab. The research carried out at RiskLab combines academic, methodological research with a strong input from and interaction with industry partners. Besides the research director and secretarial support staff, RiskLab currently has postdoctoral as well as Ph.D. positions. Several additional researchers and guests are often appointed to RiskLab on the basis of specific projects between industry and academia.

The aims of RiskLab are:

• Promotion of the scientific competence and methodology in the general area of quantitative risk management,
• Promotion of fundamental and precompetitive applied research in strong connection with practice,
• Knowledge exchange between academia, the finance, insurance and energy industry,
• Promotion of the ETH Zurich as one of the leading centres of excellence regarding academic education and research in finance and insurance mathematics.