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NEWS & EVENTS
8 décembre 2025
Market Microstructure Conference
Last week, our PhD candidate Jutta presented two recent papers at conferences in London, including the CFM | Imperial Workshop on Market Microstructure and CFE-CMStatistics.
27 novembre 2025
A Graph for a Bite
On the occasion of the annual A Graph for a Bite poster session, students from the EconophysiX Lab presented their work to members of CFM. The session provided a great opportunity to showcase our projects and receive insightful feedback on our ongoing research.
24 mars 2025
Sustainability: Research Visit to the CNRS Ecological Station
In context of the ongoing research conducted by our PhD student Elia Moretti and PI Michael Benzaquen in the sustainability realm, they visited the CNRS Ecological Station in Moulis to foster new relationships with other scientists in the field, collaborate and learn and share knowledge on their respective projects.
16 avril 2024
Call for Applications: WIQF 2024
Ecole Polytechnique advertises the 5th edition of the Women in Quantitative Finance Scholarship on their website, intranet and through newsletters.
12 mars 2024
Natascha receives Citadel and Rebellion research awards
Natasha Hey has received prestigious awards from Citadel and Rebellion Research
1 décembre 2023
ABM4POLICY at the Bank of England
Max Knicker presented joint work with Karl Naumann-Woleske, Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, and Francesco Zamponi on Post-COVID Inflation & the Monetary Policy Dilemma: An Agent-Based Scenario Analysis at the ABM4Policy Workshop.
29 septembre 2022
Seminar at Toulouse School of Economics
Michael presents a seminar on Endogenous Liquidity Crises and Financial Markets: A Physicists Perspective at the Toulouse School of Economics.
30 juin 2022
Workshop on Quantitative Human Ecology
Michael Benzaquen presented at the Workshop, with Karl Naumann-Woleske, Elia Moretti and Michele Vodret in attendance.
26 avril 2022
Jean-Philippe Bouchaud in Le Monde
The economic impact of a decrease in dependence on Russian gas should not be underestimated.
9 novembre 2021
Can one quantify beauty?
Why are some images commonly appreciated, and others not? An article by Samy Lakhal and Michael Benzaquen.
4 mai 2021
Seminar at College De France
Michael Benzaquen gave a seminar on The Fragile Nature of Liquidity in Financial Markets as a guest to Jean-Philippe Bouchaud's course at the College de France.
22 février 2021
Can physics save finance?
Jean-Philippe Bouchaud gives an interview with TV5MONDE on the occasion of his inaugural lecture at College de France.
13 octobre 2020
MOU L'X AND OECD
Today we signed a Memorandum of Under standing between the OECD's New Approaches to Economic Challenges unit at EconophysiX. It's official - more soon !
11 avril 2020
Interview with BLOOMBERG
Our work on crowding in equity factor markets makes a headline.
11 décembre 2019
Market Microstructure conference
Mehdi Tomas and Pierre-Philippe Crepin presented their research at the 3rd Market Microstructure CFM-Imperial Workshop at the HSBC Bank PLC in London.
7 juillet 2019
STATPHYS conference in Buenos Aires
Antoine Fosset and José Moran give talks on market instabilities and input-output networks at the 27th StatPhys conf. in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
18 février 2019
Press around the inauguration
Press coverage of the inauguration of the Chair included: lemonde, miroirdessciences, next-finance, hfm.global, boursier, edubourse.
1 novembre 2025
Newcomers in the Lab
We are happy to announce that in November the EconophysiX Lab welcomed César Hernández Aguayo, who joins us as a postdoctoral researcher, and Valentin Vidril, who begins his PhD. Valentin is working on order-flow modelling, while César studies climate variability and its financial effects.
1 juillet 2024
Pistachio Packing
Given N pistachios, what should be the size of the container accommodating the 2N inedible pistachio shells? We offer an answer to this seemingly quirky question, which falls within the realm of the optimal packing and the jamming of hard particles!
12 mars 2024
Inter-group Seminar
On Tuesday three quant. finance groups from IP Paris, Abi-Jaber's group from ENSAE, Rosenbaum's group of Ecole Polytechnique and EconophysiX came together to exchange research ideas and foster new relations.
5 mars 2024
Karl defends his PhD
Karl Naumann-Woleske successfully defended his PhD in Economics.
27 novembre 2023
Samy defends his PhD
Samy Lakhal has successfully defended his PhD thesis on "Turbulent Approaches to Image Analysis and Fractography"
28 septembre 2022
Karl and Max present at WDDEABM
Karl and Max travelled to Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna Pisa (Italy) to present their work on sloppiness at the Workshop on Data-Driven Empirical Agent-based Modelling.
22 juin 2022
WEHIA 2022
Karl Naumann-Woleske presented his work on sloppy models in macroeconomics.
9 août 2021
Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, L'ACADÉMICIEN DE LA FINANCE
A long portrait of Jean-Philippe Bouchaud. His beginnings in Physics, his research interests, and his career with CFM.
18 avril 2021
Women in Quantitative Finance 2021
Open to application for 2021 ! In 2020 we launched the scholarship ‘Women in Quantitative Finance’, to encourage women researchers in fields where they are underrepresented.
22 février 2021
From Statistical Physics to the Social Sciences: the challenges of Multidisciplinarity
Jean-Philippe Bouchaud begins his course at the College de France.
25 juin 2020
Beauty and structural complexity
Samy Lakhal's paper on beauty and structural complexity made the editor's suggestion.
11 février 2020
Science Ouverte
Armine Karami, Pierre-Philippe Crepin, Théo Dessertaine & Federico Morelli present the field of Econophysics to highschool students from Seine-Saint-Denis during their Complex Systems week.
24 octobre 2019
Meeting Ecole Centrale's chair of Quantitative Finance
The EconophysiX group met with researchers from Ecole Centrale's chair of quantitative finance. The two groups presented their respective work and discussed future collaboration subjects.
19 juin 2019
Interview for RADIO PARIS SACLAY
Michael Benzaquen was on Radio Paris Saclay to speak about the field of Econophysics. Listen to the interview here (in French).
17 février 2019
Inauguration at MAISON DES X
The CFM Econophysics and Complex Systems Chair was officially inaugurated at the Maison des polytechniciens.
13 octobre 2025
Retreat 2025
This year’s retreat brought the EconophysiX team to Avignon for two engaging days of scientific exchange, reflections, and forward-looking discussions. We shared updates on ongoing projects, brainstormed new ideas, and strengthened new and existing collaborations.
13 juin 2024
EconophysiX x FiQuant: Workshop at CFM
On Thursday our EconophysiX chair and the FiQuant group of Centrale Supélec came together for a vivid daylong workshop at CFM organised by Jutta and Victor. We got to hear many interesting talks from both parties and enjoyed an insightful exchange of ideas - an event to be repeated!
12 mars 2024
Samy awarded JSPS scholarship
Samy Lakhal was awarded the JSPS Postdoctoral Scholarship.
17 janvier 2024
Open for Applications: WIQF 2024
Opening the call for applications for the 5th edition of the Women in Quantitative Finance Scholarship.
7 août 2023
STATPHYS2023 in Japan
Samy and Cecilia join StatPhys 2023 in Japan, where Swann is on a research exchange
12 septembre 2022
Retreat 2022
The entire research group gathered for a two-day retreat to discuss research.
19 juin 2022
In-person group meetings
After a long intermission, we are back together in person to exchange ideas.
23 février 2022
Michael Benzaquen elected fellow of the instituit Louis Bachelier
This distinction rewards researchers, recognised for the quality of their work. The community of ILB Fellows is a forum for debate and foresight aimed at identifying new topics and fields of research for the future.
22 juin 2021
Market's mystery jumps might be predictable after all
Rob Mannix of Risk.net wrote an article about Riccardo, Jean-Philippe, and Michael's work on endogenous price jumps.
26 février 2021
Complexity Economics showcase
Michael Benzaquen and Theo Dessertaine presented Theo's work on business cycles and firm networks at the Rethinking Economics Warwick Showcase.
9 février 2021
Women in Quantitative Finance: CECILIA AUBRUN
Cecilia Aubrun, the first recipient of CFM's "Women in Quantitative Finance Scholarship", shares her experiences.
10 juin 2020
The team 2020
2020 marked the start of the COVID-pandemic and working from home. Witness the team teletravail !
29 janvier 2020
The team unites
To celebrate the achievements of 2019, the team convened for dinner. We celebrate 11 papers, over 20 conferences, and over 10 starting collaborations !
10 octobre 2019
Talk at the ISC PIF
Samy Lakhal presented his work on quantitative aesthetics at the ISC PIF (complex systems institute of Paris).
25 avril 2019
Meeting the OECD
OECD shows interest in our approach to financial markets' stability and invites us to present our results (see also NAEC).
30 janvier 2019
Journées de Physique Statistique
Antoine, Bastien, José & Mehdi give talks at the 39th edition of the Journées de Physique Statistique at ENS.
4 septembre 2025
When Altruism Smooths Social Dynamics
One of our new publications reveals how a minority of altruistic individuals can transform the collective behaviour of a system. This work illustrates how physics tools can contribute to a better understanding of social and economic dynamics and shed light on collective issues ranging from the organisation of human societies to the design of new forms of artificial intelligence.
29 mai 2024
5 years EconophysiX
A little over 5 years after its inauguration, the head of the EconophysiX chair, Michael Benzaquen, reflects on the steep development of his lab, promoted and broadcasted by Ecole Polytechnique.
12 mars 2024
EconophysiX presents
Over the course of the next few weeks, the Ecole Polytechnique Paris is presenting a series of videos introducing the members of the Chair.
8 décembre 2023
Jerome defends his PhD
Jerome Garnier-Brun has successfully defended his PhD on "Navigating radical complexity: the influence of disorder, nonrelaxational dynamics."
16 février 2023
Open for Applications: WIQF 2023
Opening the call for applications for the 4th edition of the Women in Quantitative Finance Scholarship.
10 septembre 2022
Jean-Philippe Bouchaud turns 60
We celebrated his incredible scientific career with an amazing two-day conference in his honor.
3 février 2022
Women in Quantitative Finance Scholarship 2022
Applications for the 2022 Women in Quantitative Finance scholarship have opened.
22 février 2021
Presenting at the Bank of England
Federico Morelli presented his paper Confidence collapse in a multihousehold, self-reflexive DSGE model at the Bank of England.
12 novembre 2020
Second Meeting with Centrale's FIQUANT group
Following up on last year's first meeting, we introduce all our new team members and brainstorm new collaborations.
13 avril 2020
Published by the US National Academy of Science
Federico Morelli's paper on confidence collapse in a multihousehold self-reflexive DSGE model was published in PNAS.
20 janvier 2020
OECD workshop
We presented a workshop at the OECD to share our work with the researchers from the New Approaches to Economic Challenges unit.
24 septembre 2019
Talk at the ECB
Michael Benzaquen was invited to present our results on impact and market stability at the European Central Bank.
19 mars 2019
Newcomers join the team
Samy, Karim, Pierre & Gian-Michele have joined the team for their Master's thesis.
4 décembre 2018
Market Microstructure Conference
Antoine, Lorenzo & Frédéric present posters at the 5th Market Microstructure Conference at Maison de la Chimie.