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Loïc Maréchal

Ph.D. in finance

I am a researcher at the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Lausanne and the Cyber-Defence Campus (armasuisse, Science and Technology). In this position, I use financial methods to estimate the costs of cyberattacks and value cybersecurity firms to guide armasuisse's procurement decisions. I have been teaching finance at the Universities of Neuchâtel and Geneva, ESSEC Business School, and Les Roches. I have over 10 years of experience in commodity markets, which includes working on trading desks and writing my Ph.D. dissertation. I also have a strong interest in machine learning and market microstructure. I am a French and Swiss citizen living in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Interests

  • Financial markets
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Market microstructure
  • Information retrieval
  • Cybersecurity

Education

  • Ph.D. in finance, 2021

    University of Neuchâtel

  • M.Sc. in finance, 2009

    University of Paris X and Warsaw School of Economics

  • Maîtrise in management, 2007

    University of Versailles - Saint Quentin en Yvelines

  • B.Sc. in economics, 2006

    University of Versailles - Saint Quentin en Yvelines