Demeter Kiss

Demeter Kiss is a Hungarian-born mathematician and quantitative researcher based in the United Kingdom. He won a silver medal for Hungary at the 2003 International Mathematical Olympiad (individual rank 46, 27/42). He holds an MSc in Mathematics from Eotvos Lorand University (Budapest), an MSc in Stochastics and Financial Mathematics from VU Amsterdam, and a BSc in Economics from Corvinus University of Budapest. He completed a PhD in probability at CWI (Amsterdam), with a 2013 thesis 'Topics in percolation theory', then was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge (2013-2015). His indexed work history lists a Fixed Income internship at Morgan Stanley (2008), Quantitative Researcher at Marshall Wace (Jun 2016 - Dec 2022), and Analyst at Second Foundation (Jan 2023 - present). Employment fields below are drawn from a user-editable LinkedIn index and aggregators; see the 'Quant employment verification' note for the evidence standing.

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• Quant employment verification: UNRESOLVED - the only evidence for the Marshall Wace, Second Foundation and Morgan Stanley roles is a user-editable LinkedIn index profile and aggregators (theorg.com, rocketreach); no independent primary source (company page, filing, bylined work) confirms the individual held those roles, and identity between the IMO mathematician and this professional rests on name plus matching mathematics degree, not a cross-linked primary source.
• Indexed work history lists: Analyst at Second Foundation; Quantitative Researcher at Marshall Wace; Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Cambridge; PhD student at CWI; Fixed Income Intern (Analyst) at Morgan Stanley. These are index/user-editable claims, not independent primary-source confirmation.
• Marshall Wace (mwam.com) is a London-based alternative investment manager running quantitative, systematic and fundamental long/short equity strategies, which classifies it as a quantitative hedge fund; the indexed 2016-2022 'Quantitative Researcher' role therefore sits in quantitative finance.
• Second Foundation (second-foundation.eu), where the index places him as an Analyst from Jan 2023, describes itself as aiming to be a global quantitative trading firm and is reported as a Prague energy-trading company using mathematical models; this is a quantitative trading employer, though the company self-description is not independent confirmation of his individual role.
• Won a silver medal for Hungary at IMO 2003 (individual rank 46, score 27/42).Jul 2003
• Employer classification is not implied by a company name: Marshall Wace and Second Foundation are independently identifiable as quantitative/systems-driven trading businesses (self-description and press), unlike unrelated entities sharing a 'quant' name.
• Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge through the Cambridge/AJM initiative (AIMR spotlight names 'Demeter Kiss from the AJC in Cambridge', Jan 2014), consistent with the indexed 2013-2015 Cambridge postdoc and with a 2014 paper affiliation 'Cambridge University'.Jan 2014
• Completed a PhD in probability at CWI (Amsterdam) titled 'Topics in percolation theory' (2013), based on papers on Talagrand's variance bound, frozen percolation and forest fires.Jul 2013
• Academic record: co-authored probability papers on first-passage percolation and frozen percolation with Jacob van den Berg, Pierre Nolin and Ioan Manolescu; PhD-era affiliation CWI / VU Amsterdam, later University of Cambridge.Jul 2010
• Holdings include an MSc in Mathematics (Eotvos Lorand University), an MSc in Stochastics and Financial Mathematics (VU Amsterdam), and a BSc in Economics (Corvinus University of Budapest), per LinkedIn enrichment (index-derived).
• Third-party org-chart (theorg.com) lists Demeter Kiss as Analyst at Second Foundation since January 2023; theorg is a user-editable aggregator, not primary confirmation.Jan 2023