Holger Rootzén (born 25 March 1945) is a Swedish

mathematical statistician Mathematical statistics is the application of probability theory, a branch of mathematics, to statistics, as opposed to techniques for collecting statistical data. Specific mathematical techniques which are used for this include mathematical an ...

. He is Professor in Mathematical Statistics at the Department of Mathematical Sciences,

Chalmers University of Technology Chalmers University of Technology ( sv, Chalmers tekniska högskola, often shortened to Chalmers) is a Swedish university located in Gothenburg that conducts research and education in technology and natural sciences at a high international lev ...

since 1993.

Education and career

Rootzén obtained his Ph.D. in 1974 with the thesis ''On sequences of random variables which are mixing in the sense of Renyi''. He has earlier been professor at

Lund University , motto = Ad utrumque , mottoeng = Prepared for both , established = , type = Public research university , budget = SEK 9 billion University of Copenhagen The University of Copenhagen ( da, Københavns Universitet, KU) is a prestigious public university, public research university in Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1479, the University of Copenhagen is the second-oldest university in ...

. Rootzén is member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He also serves as adjunct member on the Price Committee for the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He has been editor-in-chief for the scientific journals ''Extremes'', '' Bernoulli'', and '' Scandinavian Journal of Statistics'' and has received many grants, including a 2013 grant of 50 million SEK from the

Knut and Alice Wallenberg foundation Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (KAW) ( sv, Knut och Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse) is a Swedish public and private foundation formed in 1917 by Knut Agathon Wallenberg and his wife Alice Wallenberg. It was created to support research in the n ...

Research

Rootzén's research areas include probabilistic limit theory, statistics of extremes, and use of mathematics and statistics in medicine, engineering, and

risk assessment Broadly speaking, a risk assessment is the combined effort of: # identifying and analyzing potential (future) events that may negatively impact individuals, assets, and/or the environment (i.e. hazard analysis); and # making judgments "on the ...

in economics, epidemiology, and environmental science.

Bibliography

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References

External links

Holger Rootzén at the home page of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

Home page of Holger Rootzén at Chalmers University of Technology
{{DEFAULTSORT:Rootzen, Holger 1945 births Living people Academic staff of the Chalmers University of Technology Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Swedish mathematicians Swedish statisticians Mathematical statisticians Lund University alumni