People

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Michael Benzaquen

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.

Jean-Philippe Bouchaud

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.

Riccardo Marcaccioli

Postdoctoral Fellow

Riccardo will hold from November onward a PhD from UCL. His research interests are around developing and applying statistically grounded techniques to 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.

Samy Lakhal

PhD Student

Samy is a PhD student interested in quantitative aesthetics and fracture surfaces. He was trained at the Ecole normale supérieure Paris-Saclay.

Jérôme Garnier-Brun

PhD Student

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.

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.

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.

Benoît de Courson

Research Intern

Benoît studies the imitation/exploration trade-off. He studies mathematics and social sciences at the Ecole Normale Supérieure.

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

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.