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Christian Rohrbeck is an AXA Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Lancaster University and Secretary of the Royal Statistical Society Lancashire and East Cumbria Local Group. He was awarded an AXA Research Fund postdoctoral grant in 2017 and the EPSRC Docotoral Prize of the Faculty of Science and Technology at Lancaster University for 2016/2017. His research considers the development of statistical methodology to analyse the assocation between insurance claims and small-scale weather events. Christian completed his PhD titled "Statistical Methods for Weather-related Insurance Claims" in December 2016 at the STOR-i Centre for Doctoral Training at Lancaster University and was supervised by Deborah Costain, Jonathan Tawn, Emma Eastoe and Arnoldo Frigessi. Prior to joining STOR-i as a MRes student in October 2012, he received a Diploma (M.Sc. equivalent) in Mathematics with direction in Scientific Computing at the Ruprecht-Karls University in Heidelberg.
