Lars Åström

Trader at Jane Street's London office; Jane Street's own 'Get to know us' profile states he works as a trader in London and started in 2020. LinkedIn index lists the title Assistant Quantitative Trader from April 2020. Represented Sweden at IMO 2014 (honourable mention). MSc Engineering in Applied Mathematics at Lund University; Nordic student programming champion with team 'from __future__ import solution' and 6th at Google Hash Code 2019. Founding board member of Ung Vetenskapssport.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Jane Street's own first-party 'Get to know us' profile (janestreet.com/join-jane-street/get-to-know-us/lars/) presents 'Lars' in the London office under 'Trading, Research, and Machine Learning', 'Full-time since 2020', and the transcript states 'my name is Lars, and I work as a trader here in our London office, and I started in 2020'. This is direct employer confirmation of a real quantitative-trading role, not an aggregator or index. Jane Street is a quantitative trading firm / market maker (proprietary trading in ETFs, options, bonds, crypto), which classifies as quantitative finance. The LinkedIn index additionally lists 'Assistant Quantitative Trader' from 2020-04 and a 'Trading Intern' 2019-07 to 2019-09; the internship and the exact title remain index-only. Other leads (Apptus Technologies, Tetra Pak, Malmo stad, Malmo FF) are not quantitative-finance employers. Identity is supported: the LinkedIn index, the Jane Street London trader, and the Swedish national press profile of the Lund engineering student all align on Lund University applied mathematics.2026
• The Jane Street profile names him only as 'Lars' (no surname), so it is linked to Lars Astrom via the aligned London-trading-2020 start plus his Lund University engineering background rather than an explicit name match; the page is still a first-party employer source.2026
• Swedish national reporting (SVT, May 2012) profiled Lars Åström in 9th grade: he had finished elementary maths in year 4 and gymnasium maths in year 7, took Stanford University distance courses, and had recently won an upper-secondary maths competition; school listed as Linnéskolan in Skåne.May 29, 2012
• Jane Street 'Trading Intern' role from 2019-07 to 2019-09 is index-only (LinkedIn index); the employer's own pages confirm only the full-time London trading role from 2020, and quantify the internship as unverified separately.
• Board member of Ung Vetenskapssport (UVS): a May 2025 alumni interview states he was involved with UVS from its founding until 2019-2020, serving as its first chairman (ordförande), then treasurer (kassör) ~two years, then board member (ledamot).May 16, 2025
• Kvallsposten/Expressen (published 2019-10-06) profiled Lars Astrom, 23, of Lund as one of the Nordic region's best student programmers, competing with team 'from __future__ import solution' (Lars Astrom, Bjorn Magnusson, Jonatan Nilsson) at the Nordic Programming Championship; all three were civil engineering students.Oct 6, 2019
• Swedish IMO contestant: Lars Åström represented Sweden at IMO 2014 (Cape Town), scoring 15 points (P1=7, P2=7, P4=1) for an Honourable Mention.Jul 2014
• Education: Lund University (Lunds tekniska högskola / Faculty of Engineering) and Lund University School of Economics and Management, upper-secondary at Malmö Borgarskola (per LinkedIn index).
• Jane Street's corporate site is janestreet.com; the firm is a proprietary quantitative trading firm (market maker) headquartered in New York with offices including London, which is why his London trading role sits in quantitative finance.
• LTH (Lund University Faculty of Engineering) reported its students as Nordic programming champions, naming the Lund team that includes Lars Astrom.
• Co-contestants on Sweden's IMO 2014 team included Johan Sannemo, Emma Johansen, Lisa Lokteva, Tianfang Zhang and Malte Larsson, placing Åström in Sweden's olympiad/competitive-programming peer group.Jul 2014