Dr Ayse Arik

Ayşe Arık is a senior lecturer at the School of Risk and Actuarial Studies at University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Prior to this, she was a research fellow in the Department of Actuarial Mathematics and Statistics, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK, from December 2020 to September 2024, after completing a post-doctoral research position there (January 2018--December 2020). She holds a Ph.D. from Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkiye, awarded in November 2016, with her thesis focussed on pricing pension buy-outs.

She is an active member of international actuarial profession: she is a Fellow of the Actuaries Institute (Australia), the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (UK), and the Actuarial Society of Türkiye. She is also an active member of the International Actuarial Association’s Mortality Virtual Forum and a board member of ASTIN/ERM.

Her recent research focuses on three related themes:

• stochastic modelling of (cancer) morbidity and mortality;
• modelling and understanding health inequalities;
• applications at the interface of life insurance and financial mathematics.