stage extreme flood modeling research intern (f/h) 6 months

Référence de l’offre 2200027P Type de contrat Stage Niveau d'expérience Etudiants Société du groupeGIE AXA Famille métierFinance et stratégie Localisation PUTEAUX, Hauts-de-Seine VOTRE RÔLE ET VOS MISSIONS The AXA Group, world leader in Financial Protection, supports and advises its individual and corporate customers at every life stage, providing them with the products and services that meet their insurance, personal protection, savings and wealth management needs. Our areas of expertise are reflected in a range of products and services adapted to the needs of each client in three major business lines: property-casualty insurance, life & savings, and asset management. In 2021, present in 54 countries, the 153,000 employees and distributors of AXA were committed to serving 105 million clients. AXA CORPORATE CENTER’S MAIN MISSIONS ARE TO: Steer the entities in order to ensure the coherence of the strategies, the consistency of the commercial approaches as well as the optimization of the risks and results. Defining and coordinating Group policies, different transversal projects and standards, identifying and sharing best practices. Supporting the entities in order to help them to grow, to develop their offer, their management and steering standards as well as their risk management. The head office of AXA Group (GIE AXA), based in La Défense, gathers the Group's corporate activities. It coordinates the various entities according to the Group's strategy and is responsible for managing international projects. The headquarters is composed with over 1000 employees and is distinguished by its strong international culture (45 nationalities). TEAM PRESENTATION: The internship will be based at the AXA Group Risk Management (GRM) department with strong interactions with AXA XL entity. AXA GRM brings together multidisciplinary high-level teams composed of actuaries, engineers, PhDs, and financial analysts, based in Paris, Zurich and Madrid. The Natural Hazards Team of AXA GRM is looking for an intern for 4 months who will be joining dynamic team of 15+ members team dedicated to the modelling and monitoring of the CAT risks borne by the company. The position belongs to the GRM P&C CAT & Reinsurance Risk department (19 FTEs) which is organized in four poles (CAT Data & Analytics, R&D Modelling, Accumulation Management and Reinsurance), the intern will work within the R&D Modelling team. MISSIONS AND CONTEXT SPECIFIC TO THE MISSION: The European flood of July 2021 raised many questions within governments, industry, and research institutes. In particular, the insurance industry requires solid understanding of the meteorological origins, the hydrological response, the economic impacts, along with the probability of this event, to estimate solvency requirements, set premiums on their policies and assess required reinsurance. Current state-of-the-art natural catastrophe risk assessment models may not be able to capture this event adequately: either because the event is quite unique and absent from current hydrometeorological datasets underlying these models, or because models are calibrated against fewer extreme historical records. At AXA, the R&D modelling team has been investigating the use of Stochastic Weather Generators (SWG), a term that encompasses a powerful family of methodologies aimed at generating arbitrary long sequences of probable weather states; thus, exploring the full range of possible outcomes for a specific variable of interest such as precipitation, while trying to preserve the physics and spatiotemporal structure of the hazard. The goal of the internship is to better understand extreme events such as Bernd using a SWG. To this end, the internship will be decomposed in two interacting work packages. The first part of this internship is to support current research led by the team on the applicability of SWG to the modelling of extreme events. An emphasis will be put on precipitation modelling at the European scale. The aim of the first part would be to improve our knowledge of how well SWGs can be used to better understand the probability and risk linked to events such as Bernd. The expected methodology should allow to lengthen the rainfall record by probabilistic temporal resampling and spatial transposition of extreme convective storm events drawn from a catalogue of historical storms. The second part of this internship will be to investigate how well SWG simulated timeseries couple with hydrological and hydraulic response, in particular in areas where the meteorological conditions were much more severe than in any recorded data, used for calibration of hydrological models. As a global outcome, the work carried out during internship will deliver a contribution to research work jointly undertaken by AXA and its partners Deltares and Fathom, related to the modelling and understanding of extreme flood risk in Europe. This research work will constitute foundational material to the publication of a scientific paper, to which the intern will contribute. VOTRE PROFIL EDUCATION: * Engineering or master’s degree in hydraulics, hydrology and/or applied mathematics TECHNICAL & PROFESSIONAL SKILLS: * Knowledge in meteorology, hydrological and hydraulics. * Strong programming skills (Python and R). * Strong analytical skills. * Experience with GIS. * Experience with scientific writing (publication of a BSc Thesis for example would be a plus) * MS Office (Word, PowerPoint), LaTeX SOFT SKILLS & COMPETENCIES: * Good oral and written communication (French or English) * Curious, innovation-driven, and research-oriented * Autonomous and with a strong sense of team spirit * Organized and rigorous VOTRE ENVIRONNEMENT DE TRAVAIL Aimeriez-vous vous lever chaque jour motivé(e) par une mission inspirante et travailler en équipe pour permettre de protéger les personnes et leurs proches? Chez AXA nous avons l’ambition de mener la transformation de notre métier. Nous cherchons des personnes talentueuses ayant une expérience diversifiée, qui pensent différemment, et qui veulent faire partie de cette transformation passionnante en challengeant le statu quo et faire d’AXA – marque globale leader et une des sociétés les plus innovantes dans notre secteur – une entreprise encore plus performante et responsable. Dans un monde en perpétuelle évolution et avec une présence dans 64 pays, nos 165 000 salariés et distributeurs privilégiés anticipent le changement pour offrir des services et solutions adaptés aux besoins actuels et futurs de nos 107 millions de clients. Le siège du Groupe AXA, basé à Paris 8ème, regroupe les activités Corporate du Groupe. Il coordonne avec les différentes entités la stratégie du Groupe, et assure le pilotage des projets internationaux. La particularité du siège réside notamment en la présence d’une forte culture internationale (39 nationalités). POURQUOI NOUS REJOINDRE ? 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