People
PI & Head of EconophysiX
Michael is a CNRS Research Scientist at Ecole polytechnique. He founded and currently holds the CFM Econophysics & Complex Systems Chair. He teaches Financial Markets and Statistical Physics of Social Systems at Ecole polytechnique and ENSAE ParisTech.
Chairman & Head of Research at Capital Fund Management (CFM)
Jean-Philippe co-founded and currently runs CFM, a leading investment management firm whose strategy is based on a quantitative and scientific approach to financial markets. He is a member of the French Academy of Science, and teaches Econophysics at Ecole Normale Supérieure.
Delphine Lhuillier
Chair Coordinator
Delphine has worked at Ecole polytechnique for over 8 years, with several experiences as executive assistant, laboratory manager, human resources and project coordinator.
Iacopo Mastromatteo
Executive Director at CFM
Iacopo is in charge of developing execution strategies and analyzing trading costs. He holds a PhD in Statistical Physics from the International School for Advanced Studies of Trieste. His main interests involve market microstructure and statistical learning.
Pierre-Philippe Crépin
Postdoctoral Fellow
Pierre-Philippe is a postdoctoral fellow at Ecole polytechnique and CFM, working on market microstructure. He holds a PhD in Quantum Physics from Sorbonne Universités.
Armine Karami
Postdoctoral Fellow
Armine is a postdoctoral fellow at Ecole polytechnique and CFM, working on machine learning to predict correlations between financial assets. He holds a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Sorbonne Université.
Riccardo Marcaccioli
Postdoctoral Fellow
Riccardo holds a Laurea Triennale and Magistrale in Physics from University of Perugia and a MRes in Computer Science from UCL. He will hold from November onward a PhD in Complexity Science from the Computer Science department of UCL. His research interests are around developing and applying statistically grounded techniques to disentangle noise from signal in complex interacting systems.
Antoine Fosset
PhD Student
Antoine is a 3rd year PhD Student at Ecole polytechnique, interested in endogenous liquidity crises. He was trained at Ecole Normale Supérieure.
Mehdi Tomas
PhD Student
Mehdi is a 2nd year PhD Student at Ecole polytechnique, interested in cross-impact. He was trained at Ecole Centrale Paris and Imperial College London.
Federico Morelli
PhD Student
Federico is a 2nd year PhD student at Ecole polytechnique and UPMC, interested in Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Models. He was trained at EPFL and Ecole Normale Supérieure.
Dhruv Sharma
PhD student
Dhruv is a 3rd year PhD Student at ENS-Paris working on macroeconomic agent-based models. His training is in theoretical physics and he is an alumnus of Ecole polytechnique, ENS-Paris and St. Stephen’s College (New Delhi)
José Moran
PhD Student
Jose is a 3rd year PhD student at EHESS interested in network models for large macroeconomic fluctuations. He was trained at Ecole polytechnique.
Théo Dessertaine
PhD Student
Théo is a first year PhD student at Ecole polytechnique working on interacting networks of firms with tools and ideas from statistical physics.
Michele Vodret
PhD Student
Michele is a 1st year PhD student at Ecole Polytechnique. He currently focuses on universal behaviors exhibited by financial markets due to their endogenous microstructure. His background is in theoretical physics, which he studied at the University of Milan.
Pierre Mergny
PhD student
Pierre is a first year PhD student, interested in random matrix theory. He was trained at PSL University, ESPCI Paris and UPMC.
Rudy Morel
PhD Student
Rudy is a 1st year PhD student at École Normale Supérieure interested in modelling multiple time series using ML techniques. He is a former student of École Normale Supérieure of Rennes.
Léonard Bocquet
Visiting PhD Student
Leonard is a 1st year PhD student at the Paris School of Economics
(PSE), working on network models in macroeconomics. He was trained at
the Ecole Normale Supérieure.
Claire Alais
Research Intern
Claire is a Master student in physics in École Normale Supérieure, working on market mediated Schelling Dynamics.
Prachi Srivastava
Research Intern
Prachi studies Policy Economics at Paris School of Economics. She holds BCs in Economics from Delhi University and Masters in Financial Economics from Madras School of Economics, India. She is interested in studying Behavioral macro Finance and network economics.
Camille Boissel
Research Intern
Camille is a Master student in macroeconomics and applied mathematics at ENSAE Paris. She is interested in social and economic networks and macroeconomic policy analysis.
Samy Lakhal
Research Intern
Samy is a Master student at Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay, interested in statistical physics and renormalization theory applied to quantitative aesthetics.
Hugo Ninou
Research Intern
Hugo is a Master student in physics at Ecole Normale Supérieure, working on
the price patterns that emerged in the moscow kiosks during the 90's.
Jérôme Garnier-Brun
Research Intern
Jérôme is a Master student in physics at UPMC, working on the links between spin glass theory and long-only portfolio optimization. He previously studied engineering at Imperial College London.
Yotam Segal
Research Intern
Yotam is working on the optimization of index fund rebalancing. He studies Financial Economics at Columbia University in the City of New York.
Matthieu Blanke
Research Intern
Matthieu is a Master's student in Applied Mathematics from École polytechnique. He is working on modelling and simulating latent order books.
Eugenio Mauri
Research Intern
Eugenio is a Master student in Theoretical Physics at Ecole Normale Supérieure, working on the physics of trend and value in financial market. He holds a BSc in Physics at the University of Pavia.
Benoît de Courson
Research Intern
Benoît studies the imitation/exploration trade-off. He studies mathematics and social sciences at the Ecole Normale Supérieure.
Théophile Dullin
Research Intern
Théophile is a Master 2 student in Theoretical Physics at École Normale Supérieur, working on the cross-impact of Linear Latent Order Books.
Karl Naumann
Research Intern
Karl is a Master student in Financial Economics at Oxford, and is working on an interactions-based macroeconomic model. He holds BSc from Erasmus University Rotterdam
Jean Herskovits
Research Intern
Emanuele Troiani
Research Intern
Emanuele is a M1 student in Physics at Ecole Normale Supérieure, working on Independent Component Analysis for Equity factors identification.
Louis Lacasse
Research Intern
Louis is interested in studying the impact of alternative data and its diffusion in financial economics. He holds a B.Sc in Economics from the University of Montreal and a M.Sc. in Financial Economics from the Sorbonne.
Alumni
Luis Garcia del Molino
Postdoctoral Fellow
Valerio Volpati
Postdoctoral Fellow
Christian Schmidt
Postdoctoral Fellow
Pierre Lecointre
PhD Student
Frederic Bucci
PhD Student
Davide Luzzati
Research Intern
Rémi Mourgues
Research Intern
Lorenzo Dall'Amico
Research Intern
Giovanni Cherchi
Research Intern
Karim Tit
Research Intern
Louis Boucherie
Research Intern
Bastien Legay
Research Intern
Siyao Zhuo
Research Intern