Valentin Popov

University of Saarland
Department for Statistics and Econometrics
v.popov@mx.uni-saarland.de

[Teaches Fixed-Income Securities, Interest Rates and Term Structure of Interest Rates]

Education:
since 07/2006 PhD student at the University of Saarland. Thesis: „Correlation Estimation Using OHLC Data on Financial Markets“
10/2003 – 06/2006 Business administration at the University of Saarland, Germany, (Diplom-Kaufmann). Thesis: „Combination of Expert and Model Forecasts. An Application for Forecasting Business Key Figures in a Consulting Firm“
10/2001 – 07/2003 Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Bachelor program in Business Administration, Bulgaria

Working experience
since 11/07 Research assistant at the Department for Statistics and Econometrics, University of Saarland
09/11 Workshop-Tutor "Crash course in R", University of Saarland
04/11 –08/11 Lecturer in Statistics at the University of Applied Science, Saarbrücken
03/07 – 06/08 Project: "Analyzing and forecasting cranes’ demand in Terex Demag", Zweibrücken, Germany