About

Erik Schlögl is a Professor in the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), Australia, focusing on Financial Mathematics and Quantitative Finance. Erik received his doctorate in Economics from the University of Bonn, Germany, for work on term structure models and the pricing of fixed income derivatives and has gained broad-based experience in computational financial engineering. He has consulted for financial institutions and software developers in Europe, Australia and in the US, and served as an expert witness in cases before the Federal Court of Australia. His research interests cover a broad area of quantitative finance, in particular model calibration, interest rate term structure modelling, credit risk and the integration of multiple sources of risk. His research articles have been published in a number of international journals, including Finance & Stochastics, Quantitative Finance, Risk, the Journal of Banking and Finance and the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control. He is also the chairman of the organising committee of the Sydney Financial Mathematics Workshop (SFMW) and one of the co-organisers of the long-running conference Quantitative Methods in Finance (QMF). He is an honorary professor at the University of Cape Town and also holds an honorary appointment at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Previously, he was employed at the University of New South Wales, Australia, and the University of Bonn, Germany. He is a passionate photographer, especially of wildlife, underwater and on dry land.