Apostolos Bozikas

Apostolos Bozikas

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Full name: Apostolos Bozikas

Role: Assistant Professor

Department: Statistics and Insurance Science

Office: 510/Main Bld.

Email: bozikas@unipi.gr

Phone/Fax: +30 210 4142275

Ι. Education

  • 2019: PhD in Actuarial Science, University of Piraeus, Department of Statistics and Insurance Science. PhD Thesis: “Actuarial Models in Demography”.
  • 2013: MSc in Actuarial Science and Risk Management, University of Piraeus. MSc Dissertation: “Mortality Projection for Social Security Programs in Greece”.
  • 2009: BSc in Mathematics, University of Athens. Specialization in Statistics and Operations Research.

II. Academic Positions

  • 2023 – … : Assistant Professor in Actuarial Science, Department of Statistics and Insurance Science, University of Piraeus.
  • 2020 – 2023: Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Statistics and Insurance Science, University of Piraeus.
  • 2019 – 2020: Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Economics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
  • 2016 – 2019: Teaching Assistant, Department of Statistics and Insurance Science, University of Piraeus.

ΙII.  Academic Acknowledgement

  • Guest Editor for the Special Issue “Statistics and Quantitative Risk Management for Insurance” of the journal “Risks” (indexed by Scopus, Web of Science).
  • Guest Editor for the Special Issue “Financial Risk Management and Quantitative Analysis” of the “Journal of Risk and Financial Management” (indexed by Scopus).
  • Reviewer for the following international, peer-reviewed journals: “Annals of Actuarial Science”, “Insurance: Mathematics and Economics”, “Decisions in Economics and Finance”, “International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health”, “Risks”, “Journal of Risk and Financial Management”.
  • Member of the Organizing Committee for the “Executive Seminar: Actuarial Science – Risk Measures”, Department of Statistics and Insurance Science of the University of Piraeus.
  • Member of the Greek Statistical Institute.
  • Research funding program from the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation and the General Secretariat for Research and Innovation (2017-18).
  • Best New Statistician Competition Award, 32nd Panhellenic Statistics Conference, University of Ioannina, Greece.
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I. Undergraduate courses  

  • Health Insurance Pricing
  • Theory and Practice of Reinsurance
  • Credibility Theory
  • Statistics I (Dept. of Economics, UoA)
  • Introduction to Mathematics (Dept. of Economics, UoA)

II. Postgraduate courses  

  • Actuarial Cost Methods in Pension Funding (MSc “Actuarial Science and Risk Management”)
  • Credibility Theory and Reserving Methods (MSc “Actuarial Science and Risk Management”)
  • Generalized Linear Models (MSc “Applied Statistics”) 

 

I. Research Interests

  • Credibility Theory
  • Actuarial Cost Methods
  • Loss Reserving
  • Longevity Risk Management
  • Stochastic Mortality Modelling

II. Publications

III. Conferences

  • Papachristos Apostolos and Bozikas Apostolos (2023). Actuarial Aspects of Subjective Survival Probabilities. Presented at the 35th Panhellenic – 1st International Statistical Conference, University of West Attica, Greece, 05/2023.
  • Bozikas Apostolos (2022). Utilizing credibility theory in assessing longevity-mortality risk using multiple data. Presented at the 1st Piraeus Conference: Analytics and Leadership in Banking, Finance and Insurance Department of Banking and Financial Management, Piraeus, 09/2022.
  • Bozikas Apostolos (2022). Mortality forecasting under the non-linear credibility regression framework. Presented at the 25th International Congress on Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, Gunagzhou, China, 07/2022.
  • Bozikas Apostolos (2022). On pricing longevity bonds under a credibility regression framework for populations with limited data. Presented at the 11th International Conference in Actuarial Science and Finance, Samos, Greece, 05/2022.
  • Bozikas Apostolos (2022). A mortality forecasting method based on non-linear credibility regression. Presented at the 34th Panhellenic Statistics Conference, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece, 05/2022.
  • Bozikas Apostolos (2021). A non-linear credibility regression approach to forecasting mortality rates. Presented at the virtual conference Statistics 2021 Canada: 6th Canadian Conference in Applied Statistics, Montreal, Canada, 06/2021.
  • Bozikas Apostolos (2019). A crossed classified credibility approach to estimating future mortality dynamics for multiple populations. Presented at the 23rd International Congress on Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, Munich, Germany, 07/2019.
  • Bozikas Apostolos (2019). Multi-population mortality modelling and forecasting: A hierarchical credibility regression approach. Presented at the 3rd International Congress on Actuarial Science and Quantitative Finance, Manizales, Colombia, 06/2019.
  • Bozikas Apostolos (2019). Multi-population mortality modelling and forecasting: A hierarchical credibility regression approach. Presented at the 32nd Panhellenic Statistics Conference, Ioannina, Greece, 05/2019.
  • Bozikas Apostolos (2018). A Credibility Regression Approach with Randomly Varying Coefficients to Age-Specific Mortality Modelling. Presented at the 10th International Conference in Actuarial Science and Finance, Samos, Greece, 05/2018.
  • Bozikas Apostolos (2018). Mortality Forecasting using Actuarial Credibility Models. Presented at the 31st Panhellenic Statistics Conference, Lamia, Greece, 05/2018.
  • Bozikas Apostolos (2016). On Mortality Modelling and Securitization of Longevity Risk: An Application to the Greek Population. Presented at the Executive Seminar: Actuarial Science – Risk Measures and Topics on Solvency, Piraeus, 10/2016.
  • Bozikas Apostolos (2016). A Comparative Analysis of Stochastic Mortality Models under the Age-Period-Cohort Framework: The case of Greece. Presented at the 3rd International Conference of the European Actuarial Journal, University of Lyon 1 (ISFA), Lyon, France, 09/2016.
  • Bozikas Apostolos (2016). A Comparative Analysis of Mortality Models on Greek Population Data. Presented at the 29th Panhellenic Statistics Conference, Naousa, Greece, 05/2016.
  • Bozikas Apostolos (2015). Mortality Forecasting in Greece and Longevity Effects on Insurance Funds. Presented at the 28th Panhellenic Statistics Conference, Athens, Greece, 04/2015.
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