A bit about me

I am an alumni of  the Ecole Normale Superieure of Paris (ENS, also known as Normale Sup, Ulm). In 2002-2003 I completed a master's degree in economics - with a major in corporate finance - from the Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques (PSE) research center and graduated from  the Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et des Administrations Economiques (ENSAE) as a statistician-economist engineer.

 

I then spent the 2003-2004 academic year as a visiting student at the Department of Economics of Princeton University. It was obviously an enticing experience to flesh out some themes related to my original field of interest, corporate finance.

Research Interest and current Work

I also discovered the field of neuroeconomics thanks to Thomas Palfrey, a friend of Colin Camerer. In effect, I had the chance to participate in a neural sciences seminar organized by Jonathan Cohen at the Department of Psychology of Princeton.

It was while attending the great introductory tutorials provided by Nathaniel Daw, during the Stanford Summer School in Neuroeconomics at Stanford University, in July 2006, that I fully realized that "computational neuroeconomics" does intersect economics, psychology and neuroscience, by providing one powerful common language.

I am also a member of the Society For Neuroeconomics since August 2006.

From 2005 till 2007, I was at the London School of Economics in London, doing a PhD at the department of finance.  It was two years of intensive courses in finance. Then I transfered to the EPFL and the Swiss Finance Institute in Lausanne, to do my research in neurofinance with Peter Bossaerts, at the Laboratory of Decision-Making under Uncertainty (LDMU).

My current research is related to reward learning and decision in non-stationary environments with jumps. I conceived a very engaging and intuitve game called the "board game", in order to study human perception of three different types of uncertainty in a natural setting: perception of stochasticity  ("intrinsic uncertainty"), perception of changes in one's environment (jumps), and appraisal of one's  ignorance ("epistemological uncertainty" ).

We are currently making a computer-based version of the game, to run a large size experiment. Chen Feng, PhD student at the EPFL, is developing the software.
 
 

My home country

I am Monégasque and I consider this as a real gift: as for me Monaco is definitely the best place to live, in joint first place with San Francisco :-)   

Besides that, the Principality of Monaco is more and more open: foreign banks have entered the Principality, and others will certainly do in the incoming future. Albert II, the current ruler of the Principality, has a cosmopolitan vision for his country, and has get started concrete projects in order to realize it. Monaco is becoming a remarkably lively and creative place, both financially, culturally, and scientifically.

If you are a Monégasque abroad, consider joining the "Association  des Monégasques de l'étranger".