The Centre for Financial Research has a growing alumni base working in various financial or academic institutions in the UK and internationally.
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Ezequiel Antar
PhD (Risk Measures and Financial Innovation wit Backward Stochastic Difference/Differential Equations)
Currently Senior Analyst at Quantitative Risk Management, Inc., London
James Murphy
PhD (Hidden States, Hidden Structures: Bayesian Learning in Time Series Models)
Currently Postdoctoral Research Associate, Information Engineering Division, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge
Omri Ross
PhD (Essays on Noise Traders Risk in Financial Markets)
Currently Postdoctoral Researcher, Management Engineering, Technical University of Denmark
Arun Thillaisundaram
PhD (The Merton Problem with a Drawdown Constraint on Consumption & Generalisations of Put-call Symmetry and Self-Duality)
Pawel Zaczkowski
PhD (to come)
Currently Quantitative Analyst at G-Research, London
Liang Zhang
PhD (to come)
Moritz Duembgen
PhD (to come)
Francois Berrier
PhD (Two Topics in Financial Mathematics: Forward Utility and Consumption Functions & Hedging with Variance Swaps in Infinite Dimensions)
Currently Financial Engineer at Moore Capital Management, London
Angus Brown
PhD (On Heterogeneous Beliefs, Insurance Pricing and the Effects of Market Clearing)
Currently Quantitative Analyst at Goldman Sachs
Seung Yang
PhD (Entropy Based Models of Portfolio Credit Risk)
Currently Quantitative Analyst at Credit Suisse, London
Ke Tang
PhD (Stochastic Behaviour of Commodity Prices and Spreads with Applications)
Professor of Finance, Institute of Economics, School of Social Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing
Pia Berg-Yuen
PhD (Operational Risk Capital in Banking)
Currently Assistant Professor, School of Business Administration, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu
Vasco Leemans
PhD (Modelling Local Order Book Dynamics in Financial Markets)
Currently Executive Director, Head of eFX Spot Trading Quant Analytics at Royal Bank of Scotland, London
Luitgard Veraart
PhD (Mathematical Models for Market Making, Option Pricing and Systemic Risk)
Currently Associate Professor, London School of Economics
Hok Gwan Go
PhD (Dynamic Sampling Methods For Long Term Wealth Management)
Currently Senior Consultant at Beta Optimization Associates, Hong Kong
Yee Sook Yong
PhD (Scenario Generation For Dynamic Fund Management)
Currently Executive Director at Credit Suisse AG, Singapore
Peppe di Graziano
PhD (Topics in Credit Derivatives, Stochastic Volatility and Equilibrium Pricing)
Currently Quantitative Analyst at Deutsche Bank, London
Rob Smith
PhD (Using a Structural Credit Model to Link the Equity and Debt Markets)
Currently Senior Analyst at Nomura Research Institute, London
Muriel Rietbergen
PhD (Long-Term Asset and Liability Management for Minimum Guaranteed Return Funds)
Currently Executive Director at Coutts, London
Surbjeet Singh
PhD (to come)
Currently Quantitative Analyst at Barclays Global Capital
Arnaud Jobert
PhD (Uncertainty, Incompleteness and Risks in Financial Markets)
Currently Managing Director at J P Morgan Chase, London
Alessandro Platania
PhD (to come)
Currently Quantitative Analyst at ABN Amro, London
Marie Claire Lennon
PhD (Intensity Based Modelling with Dynamic Correlation Applied to Portfolio Credit Risk)
Currently Executive Director at Goldman Sachs, London
Benjamin Carton de Wiart
PhD (Wavelet Optimized PDE Methods for Financial Derivatives)
Currently Managing Director at Morgan Stanley, London
Gerrit Grobe
PhD (Real Options Analysis of Investments Under Multiple Sources of Uncertainty)
Currently Senior Manager, Finance at PwC network of firms (formerly Booz & Company), Cologne
John Aquilina
PhD (to come)
Currently Quantitative Analyst at UBS, London
Santiago Arbeleche
PhD (Econometric Modelling for Global Asset Management)
Currently Head of Group Internal Model Validation at Assicurazioni Generali, Milan
Michael Villaverde
PhD (Stochastic Optimization Approaches to Pricing, Hedging and Investment in Incomplete Markets)
Currently Partner at Ashenden Capital LLP, London
Yazann Romahi
PhD (Learning Techniques in High Frequency Foreign Exchange Trading)
Currently Managing Director at J P Morgan Asset Management, London
Peter Hartley
PhD (to come)
Currently Analyst at Decura
Shahab Khokhar
PhD (Valuation of Strategic Investments using Real Options Analysis)
Currently Entrepreneur & Investor at HS Capital SA, Geneva
Srikanth Veturi
PhD (Evolutionary Algorithms for Currency Trading)
Currently a Quantitative Analyst at Bank of America, Chicago
Jon Heritage
PhD (to come)
George Hong
PhD (Pricing and Hedging of Spread Options with Stochastic Component Correlation)
Currently Managing Director at Credit Suisse, Hong Kong
Anna Sembos
PhD (Dynamic Stochastic Programming for Strategic Planning Problems)
Currently Managing Director at Credit Suisse, New York
Marios Kyriacou
PhD (Financial Risk Measurement and Extreme Value Theory)
Currently Head of Risk Management at Piraeus Bank, Cyprus
James Scott
PhD (Modelling and Solution of Large-Scale Stochastic Programmes)
Currently Quantitative Developer at Credit Suisse, London
Akilesh Eswaran
PhD (Wavelet Based PDE Valuation of Swaps and Swaptions)
Currently Managing Director, Equity Derivative Structuring at Deutsche Bank, London
Fas Yousaf
PhD (to come)
Currently Senior Analyst at HSBC
Darren Richards
PhD (Pricing American Exotic Options)
Currently CEO at OAC Actuaries and Consultants PLC, London
Chris Jones
PhD (Automated Technical Foreign Exchange Trading with High Frequency Data)
Currently Managing Director, Head of Public Markets & Alternatives at bfinance, London
Nieves Hicks Pedron
PhD (Model Based Asset Management: A Comparative Approach)
Currently Manager of Energy Trading and Risk Management Systems at A2A, Milan