An interview with Laurens de Haan |
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Authors: | Holger Drees |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Mathematics, University of Hamburg, Bundesstr. 55, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
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Abstract: | Laurens de Haan was born January 15, 1937 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He graduated 1966 in mathematics and received a doctoral
degree in 1970 from the University of Amsterdam, while working at the Mathematical center CWI in Amsterdam. Since 1973 he
was Professor for probability and mathematical statistics at the Econometric Institute of the Economic Faculty at the Erasmus
University Rotterdam, where he retired 1998. Since 2008 he is part-time professor at the Department of Econometrics and Operations
Research of Tilburg University. Laurens de Haan has been active in research throughout his career. He has published more than
110 scientific papers. Among other distinctions, he was elected IMS fellow for his seminal contributions to extreme value
theory in 1977, and he was appointed Honorary Doctor of the University of Lisbon in 2000. |
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