Current position
- Full professor of the Section Statistics and Risk at the Department of Mathematics at the KU Leuven
- Visiting professor at the Institut de statistique, biostatistique et sciences actuarielles of the UCLouvain
- Prix Adolphe Wetrems--Sciences mathématiques et physiques (87e période annuelle, 1er février 2012 - 31 janvier 2013) of the Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-arts de Belgique
- Treasurer, Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability
- Fellow, Institute for Mathematical Statistics
- Elected Member, International Statistical Institute
- Associate Editor:
- Advances in Applied Probability (2010–2015)
- Bernoulli (2010–2018)
- Electronic Journal of Statistics (2019–...)
- Extremes (2012–...)
- Journal of Applied Probability (2010–2015)
- Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference (2012–2014)
- Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B (2005–2009, 2014–2018)
- Stochastic Processes and Their Applications (2009–2011)
- The Annals of Statistics (2019–2021)
- Reviewer for Mathematical Reviews (2023–...)
Current research interests
- Extreme value theory
- Dependence modelling via copulas
- Statistical learning
- Optimal transport
- Monte Carlo integration