Almut Veraart

Almut Veraart is professor at Imperial College London. She has been a postdoctoral fellow at CREATES from October 2007 - September 2010, and later assistant professor at CREATES until June 2011. She got her DPhil in Statistics from the University of Oxford in 2007. Her research interests include stochastic volatility models, Lévy processes, central limit theorems for semimartingales and high frequency financial econometrics.

Academic Positions

• 2018 - present: Professor of Statistics, Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, UK
• 2014 - 2018: Reader in Statistics, Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, UK [Maternity leaves in 2015 and 2018]
• 2011 - 2014: Lecturer in Statistics, Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, UK
• 2010 - 2011: Assistant Professor, CREATES (Center for Research in Econometric Analysis of TimE Series, School of Economics and Management at Aarhus University, Denmark
• 2007 - 2010: Postdoctoral Researcher, CREATES (Center for Research in Econometric Analysis of TimE Series), School of Economics and Management at Aarhus University, Denmark

Education

• 2008: Doctor of Philosophy (‘DPhil’), University of Oxford, UK, Department of Statistics and St Anne’s College, Supervisors: Professor Neil Shephard, Dr. Matthias Winkel
• 2004: "Diplom" in Mathematics (‘Dipl.-Math.’) (with distinction), University of Ulm, Germany
• 2004: "Diplom" in Mathematics and Economics (‘Dipl.-Math. oec.’) (with distinction), University of Ulm, Germany
• 2003: Master of Science in Applied Statistics (‘MSc’) (with distinction), University of Oxford, UK, Department of Statistics and St Anne’s College