Jim Gatheral is a researcher in the field of
mathematical finance
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, who has contributed to the study of
volatility as applied to the pricing and
risk management of
derivatives
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* Brzozowski derivative in the theory of formal languages
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. A recurrent subject in his books and papers is the
volatility smile, and he published in 2006 a book ''The Volatility Surface'' based on a course he taught for six years at
New York University, along with
Nassim Taleb. More recently his work has moved in the direction of
market microstructure, especially as applied to
algorithmic trading
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. He is the author of ''The Volatility Surface: A Practitioner's Guide.'' (2006, New Jersey:
Wiley. )
In March 2010, Jim Gatheral left his position at Merrill Lynch to assume a tenured full professor position at the Financial Engineering Masters Program at
Baruch College, where he is teaching
volatility surface modeling and market microstructure. Prior to this, he worked at
Bank of America and
Bankers Trust before heading the Equity Quantitative Analytics group at
Merrill Lynch
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in 1996, where he was a managing director for 17 years. In 1998 he became a fellow of the
Masters Program of Mathematics in Finance at the
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of
New York University, where he was an adjunct professor for 12 years.
In April 2013, Jim Gatheral was named Presidential Professor at
Baruch College. In February 2021, together with Professor Mathieu Rosenbaum of École Polytechnique, Jim Gatheral was named 2021 Quant of the Year by
Risk.net.
He received his
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in
theoretical physics from
Cambridge University (1983), and a
B.Sc. in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy from the
University of Glasgow.
References
External links
Homepageat Baruch College
Author Page Social Science Research Network
Living people
Scottish scholars and academics
Scottish businesspeople
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
Merrill (company) people
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Financial economists
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