Madelon de Kemp

Madelon de Kemp is a Dutch mathematician. She completed BSc and MSc degrees in Mathematics (specialising in stochastics) at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, then a PhD at the University of Amsterdam (2016-2020, supervisors Michel Mandjes and Neil Olver) on robust appointment scheduling and sequencing. Since 2021 she has worked as a Quantitative Risk Analyst at ABN AMRO Bank N.V.

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• Quant employment verification: UNRESOLVED. The only quantitative-finance role found is 'Quantitative Risk Analyst, ABN AMRO Bank N.V.' since April 2021, and it is sourced solely from the LinkedIn-derived enrichment index and the public LinkedIn headline (https://nl.linkedin.com/in/madelon-de-kemp-8a5a17200). That is an index/aggregator claim, not independent primary-source confirmation, so it cannot meet the CONFIRMED bar on its own. ABN AMRO N.V. is a major Dutch bank that does operate quantitative risk modelling, so the employer classification is a genuine quantitative-finance institution, but no ABN AMRO-published page naming her, and no separate primary source for the role, was found. The identity link between the ABN AMRO/VU-Amsterdam mathematician and the IMO 2010/2011 Netherlands contestant is consistent (exact name, mathematics field, Netherlands) but is not independently confirmed by any source that names both. No hedge-fund, market-making, prop-trading, energy-trading, crypto-trading, or other quant-trading employer or internship was found. Residual uncertainty retained.Sep 17, 2026
• Career is academic-research-then-bank-risk, not trading: the only non-academic role is Quantitative Risk Analyst at ABN AMRO (2021-); no hedge fund, prop trading, market-making, energy or crypto trading employer or internship appears in any source checked.Sep 17, 2026
• IMO 2010 (bronze, 15 pts) and IMO 2011 (silver, 23 pts) for the Netherlands; identity is the same name and country as the ABN AMRO/VU-Amsterdam mathematician but independent primary-source confirmation of the person-level link is not yet established.Jul 1, 2011
• Won the ASML Graduation Prize for Mathematics (EUR 5000) awarded Nov 2016 by the Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen for the MSc thesis 'Robust Appointment Scheduling and Sequencing for Many Patients'; Msc work seeded the PhD topic.Nov 28, 2016
• PhD (Sep 2016 start) at the University of Amsterdam under Michel Mandjes and Neil Olver on appointment scheduling and sequencing in a robust setting; produced peer-reviewed OR paper in Operations Research (2021).Sep 1, 2016
• Olympiad record (competition, not employment): IMO 2010 bronze and IMO 2011 silver for the Netherlands; must not be conflated with a job or internship.Jul 1, 2011
• PhD defense held at the University of Amsterdam's NETWORKS programme; the PhD yielded the peer-reviewed Operations Research paper 'Performance of the Smallest-Variance-First Rule in Appointment Sequencing' (2021) co-authored with Mandjes and Olver.Nov 1, 2021