Dr. Alexandra Dias has been a Senior Lecturer in Actuarial Science at the School for Business and Society, University of York since September 2017. Previously, she was an Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Leicester (2011–2017), an Assistant Professor of Finance at Warwick Business School (2005–2011), a credit analyst at Credit Suisse (Zurich), and a research associate at RiskLab, ETH-Zurich. She received her Licenciatura in Mathematics–Actuarial Science from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa in 1994, her MSc in Actuarial Science and Financial Risk Management from the Universidade Técnica de Lisboa in 1998, and her PhD in Mathematics–Financial Risk Management from the ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich) in 2004. Her current research interests include quantitative risk management for finance and insurance, modelling of interdependent risks and extreme events.