• Professor Peter Ritchken

    Honorary Professor

    Prof Peter Ritchken is the Kenneth Walter Haber Professor of Finance in the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. He has written several textbooks on derivatives, is on the editorial board of a number of journals and has published extensively in the derivatives area. Peter consults with large investment banks and brokerage firms, and has conducted executive education programs in the US, Europe, Asia and Australia. His current research interests are in pricing interest rate claims, implementing stochastic volatility option models, solving real option problems, and banking regulation issues. Visit Peter's website.

  • Professor Erik Schlögl

    Honorary Professor

    Prof Erik Schlögl is a Professor in the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), Australia, focusing on Financial Mathematics and Quantitative Finance. Erik received his doctorate in Economics from the University of Bonn, Germany, for work on term structure models and the pricing of fixed income derivatives and has gained broad-based experience in computational financial engineering. He has consulted for financial institutions and software developers in Europe, Australia and in the US, and served as an expert witness in cases before the Federal Court of Australia. His research interests cover a broad area of quantitative finance, in particular model calibration, interest rate term structure modelling, credit risk and the integration of multiple sources of risk. Visit Erik's website.

  • Associate Professor Jörg Kienitz

    Adjunct Associate Professor

    Prof Jörg Kienitz is an applied mathematician who supervises thesis projects either for the MSc or PhD degree. His research interests include numerical methods in finance, machine learning applied to financial problems and derivative instruments. Jörg also lectures at the University of Wuppertal on these topics where he also received his venia legendi in 2015. Furthermore, he held several senior positions in the financial industry, including Head of Analytics at Deutsche Postbank/Deutsche Bank, Co-head of Quant at Deloitte Germany. His latest affiliation is being a partner at Quaternion Risk Management. Visit Jörg's website.

  • Professor Andrea Macrina

    Adjunct Professor

    Prof Andrea Macrina holds a PhD in Mathematics from King's College at the University of London, and an MSc in Physics from the University of Bern, Switzerland. Andrea is a Professor of Mathematics and the Director of the Financial Mathematics MSc programme in the Department of Mathematics, University College London. Before joining UCT as an adjunct member of staff, Andrea held an adjunct affiliation with the University of Witwatersrand’s School of Computer Science & Applied Mathematics. He is the co-founder of the annual Financial Mathematics Team Challenge (FMTC) that was launched at AIFMRM in 2014. Andrea’s research interests range from Applied Probability, Stochastic Process Theory and Modelling to Financial and Insurance Mathematics. Visit Andrea's website.

  • Associate Professor Thomas McWalter

    Adjunct Associate Professor

    Prof Tom McWalter is an applied mathematician who lectures computational finance on the Master of Financial Engineering. His research interests include numerical methods in finance, modeling of derivative instruments and stochastic optimal control.

  • Associate Professor Tanja Tippett

    Adjunct Associate Professor

    Prof Tanja Tippett is an applied mathematician who lectures on the MCom in Risk Management of Financial Markets. Tanja has extensive industry experience in asset management and insurance, specialising in asset-liability matching, risk management, credit risk management and fixed income strategies.