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HI THERE! I’M NILOUFAR

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ABOUT

I am a Quant Financial Associate, currently working at FinPlusTech, New York. 

I graduated with a master's degree in Finance and Risk Engineering in May 2019, and I am ready to take over the world (not currently going according to the plan due to the pandemic).

I worked as a project lead at OppenheimerFunds as my master’s capstone. After that I joined ClearPrism as a financial analyst and had some fun with mathematical modeling and forecasting. Later, I joined the graduate program at the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, as a Financial Analyst in the Banking team, and enjoyed cheese and chocolate in Switzerland.

After I finished the graduate program I moved to Berlin for its startup scene (and döners) and started working at  an Investment Management startup and then worked as a part time co-founder on an Insure-tech product. Recently I have joined FinPlusTech and I've been working on multiple financial products.

I enjoy data analysis, financial modeling and finding meaningful results by looking at the data and solving real-world problems. 

I have lived and worked in 5 countries; Iran (born and raised), US (studied and worked), Chile (spent some time there working on a telescope), Switzerland, and Germany and I have an international life style.

I spend most of my day staring at my computer: working on financial data, trading, reading, tweeting and watching Netflix. 

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MY EXPERIENCE

Background & Expertise

May 2022 - present

QUANTITATIVE ASSOCIATE, FINPLUSTECH, NEW YORK

June 2021 - April 2022

FINANCIAL BUSINESS ANALYST AND CO-FOUNDER, FAIRSICH,
BERLIN

November 2020 - May 2021

FINANCIAL ANALYST, OTHOZ,
BERLIN

October 2019 - October 2020

ASSOCIATE, BANK FOR INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENTS,
BASEL

June 2019 - September 2019

FINANCIAL ANALYST INTERN, CLEARPRISM,
NEW YORK

January 2019 - May 2019

PROJECT LEAD, NYU-OPPENHEIMERFUNDS,
NEW YORK

August 2015 - May 2017

LAB INSTRUCTOR/ GRADUATE RESEARCH & TEACHING ASSISTANT, UPENN,
PHILADELPHIA

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EDUCATION

What I’ve Learned

MSC  NYU TANDON

September 2017 - May 2019

Financial Engineering

MSC UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

August 2015 - May 2017

Physics and Astronomy

BSC NYU TANDON

January 2012 - May 2015

Applied Physics

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MY SKILLS

What I Do

EXCEL VBA

PYTHON

MATLAB

MATHEMATICA

BLOOMBERG

DATA ANALYSES

LATEX

SOLIDWORKS

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"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood."

Marie Curie

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INTERESTS AND HOBBIES

Just for Fun

TRADING STOCKS, OPTIONS AND CRYPTOCURRENCIES

I believe you can never learn the concepts of market if you don't have skin in the game. I started trading years ago as a hobby and I am learning more everyday. I've been up more than 200% since last year, and no, I don't only own Tesla and BTC :)

PHOTOGRAPHY

I started as a night sky photographer when I was a teenager. Check out one of my photos at The World At Night (TWAN) project website: http://www.twanight.org/newTWAN/guests_photos.asp?ID=5001393

LEARNING NEW LANGUAGES

I am Fluent in Farsi and Azeri, I also speak some Turkish and understand some Arabic and German.

STARGAZING

I'm on a mission to find the darkest nightsky with the highest limiting magnitude. So far, San Pedro the Atacama is the winner. 

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