
Alexander Schied is Professor in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ. He holds the Munich Re Chair in Stochastic Finance and a University Research Chair. His research focuses on quantitative finance, probability theory, and stochastic analysis, with recent work on risk measurement and management, financial modeling and optimization, robustness and model uncertainty, and market microstructure. He is co-author, with Hans Föllmer, of Stochastic Finance: An Introduction in Discrete Time. He currently serves as Co-Editor of Finance and Stochastics and sits on several other editorial boards, including Applied Mathematics and Optimization,ÌýMathematical Finance, and the SIAM Book Series on Financial Mathematics. Prior to joining À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ, he was a professor at the University of Mannheim and held positions as Associate Professor at TU Munich, Cornell University, and TU Berlin. He earned a doctorate in mathematics from the University of Bonn.