Daniela Selch currently works as a quantitative analyst for the Equities - Structured Products and Strategies team of Barclays Quantitative Analytics in London. Previously, she was a research assistant at the Chair of Mathematical Finance at the Technical University of Munich, where she earned her PhD for the results summarized in this book. Her PhD thesis was awarded the SCOR-price for actuarial sciences and she presented at several scientific conferences, including the ICBI Global Derivatives Trading & Risk Management 2016, Budapest as invited speaker.
Matthias Scherer is Professor for Financial Mathematics at the Technical University of Munich, member of the board of the German Society for Insurance and Financial Mathematics (DGVFM), and associate editor of the journals Dependence Modelling and RISIKO MANAGER. He has (co-)authored scientific papers in the areas finance and actuarial science, multivariate statistics, probability theory, and quantitative risk management.