Annika Hecker works as an actuarial consultant at Meyerthole Siems Kohlruss (MSK). She previously completed a master's degree in business mathematics at the University of Cologne and a bachelor's degree in business mathematics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Her master's thesis was written in cooperation with MSK on the topic of ‘Artificial intelligence in the context of motor insurance: multidimensional clustering for the optimisation of generalised linear models’. Hecker's focus at MSK is on the data pools.