Christina Kürten is a dyed-in-the-wool insurance mathematician. Already during her mathematics studies, she acquired work experience with several insurance companies and spent some time in Deutsche Rück's "Life Market" department as a working student.

And it was there that a prototypical career started, Deutsche Rück style – it was soon obvious that there was more to this clever working student than the job description demanded – and we are reaping the benefit, of course. So, Kürten was given an opportunity to become actively involved in expanding the business, and she seized that opportunity to such universal satisfaction that we let her write her diploma thesis before hiring her. Which, by the way, bears the title – extremely cryptic for non-mathematicians – "Sparse-grid binomial trees for the evaluation of multi-asset options". In our company, she was then also quickly given a chance to use her analytical skills in "bringing up" K.e.r.m.i.t. – no, not the frog, but the simulation software "Kalkulation einer Rückversicherung mit individuellen Tools" (Calculating reinsurance using individual tools).

It is deployed for stochastic simulation of the implications of reinsurance solutions for Life primary insurance – in keeping with the motto "At the end of the day, everything in life can be boiled down to numbers ".

But anyone who now pictures Kürten sitting around quietly doing theoretical calculations is clearly unacquainted both with Deutsche Rück and with Kürten. She not only develops: she also "sells". Meaning that she comes along on visits to the customer and, in workshops, provides active support for the products she helps develop. And this illustrates very well what distinguishes Deutsche Rück in its personnel development: Staff are not trained to become idiots savants, but are deployed, supported and challenged on a much more versatile basis. True to the motto "People rise to the demands placed on them".

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