Ariane Hanebeck received the M.Sc. degree in mathematics from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany, in 2020. She is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree with the Chair of Applied Mathematical Statistics, Technical University of Munich, Germany. Her research interests include copula-based state space models and MCMC sampling for vine copula models. Applications are in the fields of mortality analysis and flight safety.