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Dr Şule Şahin
Senior Lecturer‎ /‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ Director of the Centre for Actuarial Compensation and Valuation of Life (CAVOL)

Biography

Şule Şahin is currently a Senior Lecturer in Actuarial Science at the University of York. Previously, she served as a Lecturer in Actuarial and Financial Mathematics at the University of Liverpool (2017-2022) and held an Associate Professor position in the Department of Actuarial Sciences at Hacettepe University, Türkiye, from 2018 to 2020. She is the Director of the Centre for Actuarial Compensation and Valuation of Life (CAVOL), a member of the Ogden Working Party responsible for the analyses underpinning the Ogden Tables used in determining compensation for personal injury and fatal accident cases, and a Board Member of the AFIR-ERM section of the International Actuarial Association (IAA).

Dr Şahin earned her PhD in Actuarial Mathematics from Heriot-Watt University in 2010. She also holds an MSc in Actuarial Science from Hacettepe University, an MSc in Sociology, and a BSc in Statistics from the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Türkiye. She is a Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries and a Corresponding Member of the Actuarial Society of Türkiye.

Her research interests include stochastic investment models for long-term applications, mortality modelling, and compensation for loss of earnings. She has undertaken research visits to the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in 2012 and Columbia University, New York, in 2019 as part of projects funded by the University of the Witwatersrand, the Casualty Actuarial Society, and the Society of Actuaries. In addition to attending numerous conferences, she has published papers in leading actuarial, applied mathematics, and statistics journals. Dr Şahin is also a co-editor of the open-access Springer Actuarial Series book, Pandemics: Insurance and Social Protection, published in 2021.

Sule Sahin

School for Business and Society
University of York
Church Lane Building
York Science Park
Heslington
York YO10 5ZF

E: sule.sahin@york.ac.uk
T: +44 1904 32 8508
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