A return to the alma mater
This breadth of interests is also reflected in Ziegel’s scientific career so far. After graduating in mathematics from ETH Zurich in 2006, she stayed on for her doctoral research on the stereological analysis of spatial structures – which has applications in microscopy, spatial surveys, and image analysis – under the joint supervision of Paul Embrechts and Eva B. Vedel Jensen (Aarhus University, Denmark). She obtained her doctoral degree in 2009 and then moved to the University of Melbourne (Australia) and the University of Heidelberg (Germany). During this time, she made important contributions to the theory of positive definite functions and to statistical prediction theory, the latter becoming her main research interest. In 2012, she started as a tenure-track assistant professor of applied stochastics at the University of Bern. She was promoted to associate professor in 2018 and to full professor in 2023, before returning to ETH Zurich this year. Since 2021, she has also been a visiting scientist at the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies.
During her time in Bern, Ziegel was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research (OCCR) at the University of Bern. She has also served on the Council of the Bernoulli Society, and is currently a member of the editorial boards of Bernoulli, JASA: Theory & Methods, the Journal of Financial Econometrics, the International Journal of Forecasting, and the SIAM Journal on Financial Mathematics.
