Antje Mahayni, born in 1971, studied economics at the University of Bonn. In 2001, she finished her doctoral theses "Hedging in Incomplete Markets'' supervised by Prof. Dr. Dieter Sondermann. From 2001 to 2006 she worked as an Assistant Professor in the finance group of Prof. Dr. Klaus Sandman and received her venia legendi at the University of Bonn with the post-doctoral thesis "Risk Management of Minimum Return Guarantees and Embedded Options.'' In 2007, Antje Mahayni was appointed to the newly founded chair of "Insurance and Risk Management'' at the Mercator School of Management (University of Duisburg-Essen). Her current research interests are placed at the interface of mathematical finance and insurance.