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Nizar Touzi is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Finance and Risk Engineering at New York University's Tandon School of Engineering since September 2023, with an affiliate appointment at the Courant Institute. He previously held professorships at Ecole Polytechnique (2006-2023), Imperial College London (2005-2006), and CREST (2001-2006), with part-time roles at the latter two institutions.
His research focuses on stochastic processes, mathematical finance, stochastic control, and mean field games, with significant contributions to probabilistic numerical methods like Monte Carlo techniques. He has served as Scientific Director of the Risk Foundation (Louis Bachelier Institute) since 2016 and led academic teams at Ecole Polytechnique, including chairing its Department of Applied Mathematics (2014-2017) and directing the Jacques Hadamard Doctoral School (since 2020).
Scientific awards include the ERC Advanced Grant (2012), French Academy of Science Bachelier Prize (2012), and the Europlace Institute of Finance's Best Young Researcher in Finance Award (2007).
