I am currently doing my PhD with Peter Bossaerts at the Laboratory of Decision-Making Under Uncertainty at the EPFL and Swiss Finance Institute, Lausanne. Before Lausanne, I did the first two years of my PhD in the Department of Finance of the London School of Economics. Prior to LSE, I was a visiting student in Princeton, where I first discovered Neuroeconomics.

I hold a masters degree in economics from the Paris School of Economics and a diploma in statistics from the Paris Graduate School of Economics, Statistics and Finance.

For those familiar with the “quartier latin” in Paris, I am a former student of Normale Sup (Ecole Normale Superieure de la rue d’Ulm). I spent three amazing years there before finally going on to Princeton, London and Lausanne. Living in Lausanne is great but so is living globally and I’m already looking forward to our next home somewhere after I finish my PhD.

I study financial decision-making under uncertainty, at the intersection of neuroscience, machine learning, psychology and finance — e.g., trading and investment behavior under various levels of uncertainty, the neural basis of different decision-making related uncertainty signals.

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