Marilena Sibillo is full professor of Mathematical Methods for Economics, Finance and Actuarial Sciences at the University of Salerno and at present contract professor of Financial Mathematics in the academic year 2020/2021 at Luiss University in Rome. She worked at the Universities of Napoli Federico II and Sassari. In 2012 she was awarded as Highly Commended Award Winner at the Literati Network Awards for Excellence and since 2013 she is a Paul Harris Fellow. She had national and international awards related to teaching. She attended many conferences giving talks, has been responsable of research projects and supervisor of Ph.D theses, among which the one awarded as best thesis for the a.y. 2019 by the Italian Association of Mathematics applied to Economic and Social Science (AMASES). Since 2006 she is Editor of the Springer books Mathematical and Statistical Methods for Actuarial Sciences and Finance, among the most downloaded eBooks in the relevant Springer eBook Collection and guest editor of international journals. She is referee of several specialised journals. Since 2004 she is chair of the international conference MAF and since 2016 of the actuarial school UNISActuarial. She is author of more than 100 papers mostly published on international journals and books. Her scientific activity mainly deals with Risk Theory, Analysis and control of the interactions between financial and demographic risks, Variable annuities, Stochastic mortality, Innovative pension contracts.