Memberships and Responsibilities

• Member of the Executive Committee of the Bernoulli Society as Membership Secretary (2019 – 2023).
• Director of the Western Swiss Doctoral School in Statistics and Probability CUSO (2020 – ).
• Associate Editor of JRSSB (2021 – ), Extremes (2018 – ) and Scandinavian Journal of Statistics (2019 – ).

News

• January 2021: I am happy to join the Editorial Panel of JRSSB.
• December 2020: Our paper on "Rank-based Estimation under Asymptotic Dependence and Independence" (with M. Lalancette and S. Volgushev) has been accepted in the Annals of Statistics.
• December 2020: New paper on "Structure learning for extremal tree models" (with S. Volgushev) on arxiv.
• November 2020: Seminar talk at Columbia University, New York (virtual).
• October 2020: Simon Chatelain, Frank Röttger and Olivier Pasche are starting within my SNSF Eccellenza grant.
• September 2020: Our paper on "Causal discovery in heavy-tailed models" (with N. Gnecco, N. Meinshausen and J. Peters) has been accepted in the Annals of Statistics.
• September 2020: We are organizing a virtual Statistical Learning Workshop on September 18, 2020; program and registration on the website.
• September 2020: My PhD student Edossa Merga is visiting for 8 months from Hawassa University, Ethiopia. Funding from the Green Leaves Education Foundation is gratefully acknowledged.
• June 2020: Our JRSSB discussion paper “Graphical models for extremes” is now published. Thanks to all the contributors to the discussion!
• June 2020: New paper on "Evaluating the dependence structure of compound precipitation and wind speed extremes" (with J. Zscheischler, P. Naveau, O. Martius and C. Raible) at Earth System Dynamics.
• May 2020: Review paper on "Sparse Structures for Multivariate Extremes" (with J. Ivanovs) on arxiv, to appear in Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application.
• February 2020: Presenting our paper “Graphical models for extremes” (with A. Hitz) at the Royal Statistical Society discussion meeting in London, UK.
• December 2019: Sebastian is awarded an Eccellenza grant with the title "Graph structures, sparsity and high-dimensional inference for extremes" by the Swiss National Science Foundation.
• December 2019: Sebastian has been elected as member of the ISI.
• November 2019: The graphicalExtremes package is now on CRAN and .
• October 2019: Seminar talks at UQA Montreal, University of Waterloo, University of Guelph, University of Alberta and Environment and Climate Change Canada.
• October 2019: Plenary speaker at Climate Informatics Conference in Paris.
• September 2019: Lecturing at Training School on Statistical Modelling of Compound Events in Lake Como.
• September 2019: Three-month stay at The Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences in Toronto as a Fields Research Fellow.

Short Bio

Sebastian is assistant professor at the Research Center for Statistics at the University of Geneva, where is holding an Eccellenza grant. He was visiting professor at the Department of Statistical Sciences at the University of Toronto from 2018 – 2019. Previously he was an Ambizione fellow at EPF Lausanne with Anthony Davison. Sebastian did his studies in Mathematics at University of Göttingen and UC Berkeley, and he finished his PhD as a Deutsche Telekom Foundation fellow in 2013 at the University of Göttingen with Martin Schlather. His research interests are in extreme value theory, spatial statistics, graphical models and data science. Since 2018, Sebastian is Associate Editor of the Springer journal Extremes and the Scandinavian Journal of Statistics.