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Research Interests

• Probability models for strategies and applications
• Optimal search and selection
• Probability algorithms
• Branching processes
• Limit theorems

Distinctions

• Elected Member of the Tönissteiner Kreis für Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft, Germany (since 1984)
• Feodor-Lynen Fellow of the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation (since 1988)
• Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute (since 1991)
• Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (since 1999)
• 2nd Prize of Article Competition << Raising Mathematics Awareness of Mathematics>> of the European Mathematical Society, (2003)
• Jacques Deruyts Prize for distinguished contributions to Mathematics 2000-2004, Royal Academy of Belgium (2004)
• 1st Prize of Article Competition << Raising Mathematics Awareness of Mathematics>> of the European Mathematical Society (2006)