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Thaleia Zariphopoulou holds the Presidential Chair in Mathematics and the V.F. Neuhaus Professorship in Finance at the University of Texas at Austin. She previously served as the Laun Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison from 2009 to 2012, and as the holder of the Oxford-Man Chair in Quantitative Finance at the University of Oxford. Zariphopoulou’s expertise encompasses Financial Mathematics and Stochastic Optimization, with a robust portfolio of research focusing on investment valuation, incomplete markets, and innovative approaches to indifference valuation and dynamic risk preferences. She has actively contributed to the Financial Mathematics community, sitting on the editorial boards of eleven academic journals and monograph series and is a past Vice-Chair and Vice-President of the Bachelier Finance Society. Throughout her career, she has been honored with several accolades including being elected as a SIAM Fellow in 2012 and was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Seoul in 2014. Zariphopoulou’s research includes significant work in Financial Mathematics, Quantitative Finance, and applications of analytics and machine learning in finance.
University of Texas at Austin • Austin, TX
Holder of the Presidential Chair in Mathematics and the V.F. Neuhaus Professorship in Finance.
University of Wisconsin, Madison • Madison, WI
Held the Laun Professorship in Finance.
University of Oxford • Oxford, UK
Managed the Oxford-Man Chair focusing on Quantitative Finance.
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