About me

I am an Egyptian mathematician and financial economist.  My main research interests are in investment decisions, behavioral finance, and climate finance.  Previously, I was an investment strategist at Pictet and a quantitative risk researcher at MSCI. My PhD is in abstract nonsense from the University of Cambridge, where I also completed Part III of the Mathematical Tripos. 

I am based at the Institute of Economics, part of the School of Economics and Political Science (SEPS) at the University of St. Gallen, where I am an Assistant Professor of Quantitative Economics. I am also a Faculty Member of the Swiss Finance Institute and an Affiliated Researcher at the Consortium for Data Analytics (CDAR) (based at the Department of Economics) at the University of California at Berkeley.