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Prof. Laura Ballotta is a Professor in Mathematical Finance at Bayes Business School, City St George's, University of London. She specializes in quantitative finance, stochastic modeling, and risk management. Her academic roles include Director of the Quants MSc cluster and Admissions Tutor for multiple MSc programs. She holds a PhD from Università degli Studi di Bergamo, an MSc from the University of Edinburgh, and a BSc from Università Cattolica Sacro Cuore.
Her research focuses on numerical methods for financial applications, particularly in areas like Lévy processes, option pricing, and the interplay between finance and insurance. She co-organizes the Financial Engineering Workshops at Bayes and serves on editorial boards for key journals. Notable awards include the EJOR Editor’s Choice Article (2017) and the Teaching and Learning Prize (2011).
Prof. Ballotta is a member of the Bachelier Finance Society and SIAM, and she has held external fellowships, including a Marie Skłodowska-Curie FCFP Fellowship at Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies. Her work bridges theoretical finance with practical applications, emphasizing risk assessment and computational techniques.
