HI THERE! I’M NILOUFAR
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.
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
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
MY SKILLS
What I Do
EXCEL VBA
PYTHON
MATLAB
MATHEMATICA
BLOOMBERG
DATA ANALYSES
LATEX
SOLIDWORKS
"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood."
Marie Curie
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.