Alexander Schied joined Mannheim University in 2009. His research is in
applied probability and stochastic analysis with applications to
mathematical finance and economics. Recent research topics include risk
measures and risk management, robust portfolio choice under model
uncertainty, and optimization problems in the face of liquidity risk.
Together with Hans Föllmer he co-authored the book "Stochastic
Finance: An Introduction in Discrete Time".
Before coming to Mannheim, Alexander Schied was Associate Professor at
TU Munich and at Cornell's School of Operations Research and
Information Engineering. From 2003 to 2007 he was
Associate Professor of Mathematics at TU Berlin.
He is an Associate Editor for Finance and Stochastics, the SIAM Journal
of Financial Mathematics, and the Jahresbericht der DMV. Since 2009 he
is a member of the Scientific Council of the research institute
EURANDOM, and from 2006 to 2007 he was the Scientific Director of the
Quantitative Products Laboratory in Berlin.
Alexander Schied holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of
Bonn.