Marcel Ausloos is a Belgian engineer, M.Sc., and Ph.D. He has been applying statistical physics ideas and methods in various fields of “complex systems” (bio-physics, econo-physics, linguistics, meteorology, socio-physics, etc.) beside having been pursuing investigations on condensed matter. At the University of Liege, he founded the SUPRAS group with fundamental and applied scientific interests on ceramics superconductors and magnetic materials. In parallel, he initiated the GRASP, later becoming GRAPES (Group of Researchers for Applications of Physics in Economy and Sociology), when he retired. He presently holds a part-time chair at the School of Business, University of Leicester; he was also affiliated with the Bucharest University of Economic Studies, since Dec. 2018. TITLE TALK: Team ranking. Criteria toward the best hierarchical choice. |
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TITLE TALK: Regularization in portfolio optimizatin |
Stefania Corsaro is associate professor of Mathematical methods of Economics, Finance and Actuarial sciences at Parthenope University of Naples, where she joins the board of the PhD programme in Economics, Statistics and Sustainability and directs the master’s degree programme in Blue Economy and Management. She also serves as MBA programmes board member. Stefania Corsaro conducts research on issues in computational methods for finance and insurance. She is member of the editorial board of Applied Soft Computing. She has been a numerical analysis scientist for several years, working on the development of high-performance mathematical software. From 2005 her research concerns quantitative finance. She brought her expertise in this field, giving contributions on different topics, as the numerical evaluation of portfolios of life insurance policies, option pricing, portfolio selection. She is author of about 50 scientific publications and participated to many international conferences, both as organizer and speaker. Her scientific interests are at present mainly related to applications of machine learning methods in finance and actuarial sciences. She is member of the scientific committee of the FinTech Research Network, a community promoting research in the Fintech domain, and the Napoli FinTech Lab, an advanced post graduate training laboratory for the application of new technologies in the financial sector.  Alessio Ishizaka is Head of the Information Systems, Supply Chain and Decision making Department and Distinguished Professor in Decision Analysis. He was research lead and Deputy Director of the Centre of Operational Research and Logistics at the University of Portsmouth. Alessio received his PhD from the University of Basel (Switzerland). He worked successively for the University of Exeter (UK), University of York (UK) and Audencia Grande Ecole de Management Nantes (France). He has been visiting professor in several universities in Italy, France and Germany. His research is in the area of decision analysis, where he has published more than 120 papers. He is regularly involved in large European funded projects. He has been the chair, co-organiser and guest speaker of several conferences on this topic. He wrote the indispensible textbook Multicriteria Decision Analysis: methods and software.
TITLE TALK: Ten years of AHPSort |
María Mar Miralles-Quirós is a Full Professor of Financial Economics and Accounting and the Director of the Research Group on Markets and Financial Assets at the University of Extremadura in Spain. Her research has focused on providing shareholders’ investment strategies that would beat the market using sophisticated mathematical approaches, as well as the analysis of companies’ sustainable activities and their connection to shareholders’ value creation. Her research works have been published in prestigious journals such as Business Strategy and the Environment, Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, Energy Economics, International Review of Economics and Finance, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money, Mathematics, and North American Journal of Economics and Finance, among others. TITLE TALK: The contribution of finance to combating climate change |