Curriculum Vitae

Work experience

• 2026 - current: Postdoctoral researcher in actuarial science at KU Leuven, Belgium
  • Started my postdoctoral research in September 2026, working with Prof. dr. Katrien Antonio. Focus is on climate impact modelling.
• 2021 - 2026: PhD candidate in actuarial science at KU Leuven, Belgium
  • PhD from November 2021 under supervision of Prof. dr. Katrien Antonio. Focus was on machine learning and deep learning application in non-life insurance and risk management.
  • Public defence of the PhD on 26 August, 2026.
• 2015 - 2021: Risk modelling expert at NN Life Insurance, Belgium
  • My traineeship at Delta Lloyd Life transitioned into a full-time position as Risk Modelling Expert in the Delta Lloyd Life Risk Modelling team. In 2017, Delta Lloyd merged with NN Insurance.
  • The lapse assumption model was a large project throughout the years. Transitioning from an expert judgment-based model to a fully data-driven model with all calculations and calibration done in R. A combination is made between machine learning techniques and regulatory/operational effects.
  • I was involved in the mortality assumption studies over the years, and researching machine learning techniques for switch behaviour in individual universal life/unit-linked products. I performed several model changes in Prophet and was part of the team making the transition of the cash flow model in Prophet to IBM R3S (AFM).
• 2014 - 2015: Risk Modelling trainee at Delta Lloyd Life Insurance, Belgium
  • Two part-time traineeships during my studies in the Modelling team of Delta Lloyd Life (Risk Department). First traineeship was on the grouping of model points for cashflow projection model, with the use of Prophet. Second traineeship working on the lapse assumption model; analysis of methods in place, update and transition to R for the data process.

Services

• 2021 - current: Member of the POC MAFE/MAFW
• 2024 - current: Member of the Subcommission MAFE/ZIM
• 2026 - current: Member of the FPOC (as ABAP representative, substitute member)
• 2023 - 2026: Elected ABAP representative for the insurance research group
• 2025 - 2026: Member of the AFI council (as ABAP representative)
• Peer review service: ASTIN Bulletin, European Actuarial Journal, Insurance: Mathematics and Economics

Teaching

• Course coordinator and lecturer
  • 2026 - 2027: Coordinator of the course Beleidsinformatiesystemen, and lecturer for part of it (3 of 6 ECTS), covering Information Systems & Strategy, Business Intelligence & Data Analytics, and State of the Art in AI.
  • Three deliveries, 9 ECTS in total: campus Leuven in English (HIR, semester 1) and in Dutch (TEW, semester 2), and campus Kulak Kortrijk in Dutch (HIR/TEW, semester 2).
• Teaching assistant
  • 2021 - current: TA for the course Solvency of Financial Institutions. My tasks involved co-organizing the course structure, making contact with industry speakers from KBC, EY, AG Insurance, National Bank of Belgium and QBE Re, and the organization and grading of tests, exams and assignments.
• Master thesis workleader
  • 2021 - current: Workleader for master theses in the MAFE program and the Statistics & Data Science program at KU Leuven. Supervised over twenty master theses between 2021 and current.

Research visits

• October 2026
  • University of Toronto, with Prof. Christopher Blier-Wong.
• January 2026
  • HEC Lausanne, with Prof. Hansjoerg Albrecher.
• December 2024
  • University of Toronto, with Prof. Christopher Blier-Wong.

Publications

A multi-view contrastive learning framework for spatial embeddings in risk modelling

Holvoet, F., Blier-Wong, C., & Antonio, K. (2025). A multi-view contrastive learning framework for spatial embeddings in risk modelling. arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.17954. Accepted for publication in ASTIN Bulletin.

Neural networks for insurance pricing with frequency and severity data: a benchmark study from data preprocessing to technical tariff

Holvoet, F., Antonio, K., & Henckaerts, R. (2025). Neural Networks for Insurance Pricing with Frequency and Severity Data: A Benchmark Study from Data Preprocessing to Technical Tariff. North American Actuarial Journal, 29(3):519-562.

Grants

• KU Leuven Internal Funds C3 2026
  • A climate-risk engine for insurance risk assessment
  • Two-year postdoctoral project at KU Leuven (LRisk, Katrien Antonio and me), with three industry partners
  • Wrote the grant application and am the funded postdoctoral researcher on the project
• KU Leuven Global Seed Funding 2026
  • SAFIR: SpAtiotemporal Foundation models for understanding and modelling 21st century emerging Insurance Risks
  • Project between the University of Toronto (Christopher Blier-Wong and Andrei Badescu) and KU Leuven (Katrien Antonio and me)
  • Involved both in writing the grant application and as scientific collaborator on the project

Talks

Public PhD Defence

KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business, Leuven, Belgium - August 26, 2026

Scandinavian Actuarial Conference

Stockholm, Sweden - June 15, 2026

ASTeRISK Workshop at UC Louvain

Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium - March 27, 2026

Seminar during research visit at the University of Lausanne

Lausanne, Switzerland - January 20, 2026

ASTIN Bulletin conference

Zurich, Switzerland - January 14, 2026

Second Doctoral Seminar (PhD track) at KU Leuven

Leuven, Belgium - December 17, 2025

AIBE session - organized by AG Insurance

Brussels, Belgium - December 08, 2025

Insurance: Mathematics & Economics conference

Tartu, Estonia - July 01, 2025

7th Insurance Data Science conference

London, UK - June 18, 2025

ASTeRISK Workshop at KU Leuven

Leuven, Belgium - February 11, 2025

Weekly Seminars on Risk Management and Actuarial Science at University of Waterloo

Waterloo, Canada - December 04, 2024

Seminar during research visit at the University of Toronto

Toronto, Canada - December 02, 2024

AFI BrownBag Seminar at KU Leuven

Leuven, Belgium - November 28, 2024

First Doctoral Seminar (PhD track) at KU Leuven

Leuven, Belgium - November 13, 2024

5th Insurance Data Science conference

London, UK - June 16, 2023

Invited talk at Thomas More

Mechelen, Belgium - October 14, 2022

European Actuarial Journal conference 2022

Tartu, Estonia - August 14, 2022

Education

• Ph.D in Actuarial science, KU Leuven, Belgium, 2026
• M.S. in Actuarial and Financial Engineering, KU Leuven, Belgium, 2021
• M.S. in Insurance, KU Leuven, Belgium, 2014
• B.S. in Mathematics, KU Leuven, 2013

Personal interests

• Founder and head of the Project TableTop VZW in Herent, Belgium. We have been organising events around boardgames since 2017, most notably the yearly event HEX.
• Woodcarver and woodturner under the pseudonym Wooden Pandas. Completed four years of woodcarving school at Qrios Leuven.
• Trivia: fan of punkrock, postrock, and metal (melodic, thrash) music. Used to be active in youth movement (Chiro). During my studies I was active in the student organisation Wina VZW.