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CLAUDIO FONTANA

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Professore Ordinario

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VIA TRIESTE, 63 - TORRE ARCHIMEDE - PADOVA

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049 827 1358

Claudio Fontana is full professor of probability at the University of Padova (Italy). He holds a Master of Advanced Studies in Finance (ETH and University of Zurich) and a PhD in Mathematics (University of Padova). He was awarded the Bruno de Finetti prize by the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Rome, 2008), the AMASES award for the best paper (2010), the Nicola Bruti Liberati fellowship (UTS Sydney, 2016) and the Europlace prize for the best paper in finance (Paris, 2017). Since 2012, he has worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Évry (France), at INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt, at Paris VII University as maître de conférences (2014-2018) and at École Polytechnique as scientific collaborator (2022-2023). His research interests are in the theory of stochastic processes and their applications in finance, in particular interest rate and credit risk modeling, arbitrage theory and the modeling of information. His research has been supported by CNRS, the Europlace Institute of Finance, by a STARS grant from the University of Padova and a prestigious Marie Curie fellowship funded by the European Union. In 2021 he has been elected Academic Fellow of the Louis Bachelier Institute and in 2024 Fellow of the Young Academy of Europe. Together with E. Barucci, he is the author of the monograph "Financial Markets Theory: Equilibrium, Efficiency and Information" (Springer Finance, 2017).

Personal webpage: http://sites.google.com/site/fontanaclaud