Pablo Soto Martín

Spanish mathematician and computer engineer (IMO 2019 bronze medalist; IMC 2023 first prize). Double Degree in Mathematics and Computer Engineering at UAM, exchange at Sorbonne Université, M2 Learning and Algorithms at Sorbonne Université, MASEF at Dauphine-PSL. Research internships at ICMAT/CSIC and MathWorks. LinkedIn lists a quantitative research role at Squarepoint Capital (Paris).

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Pablo Soto Martin holds a quantitative role at Squarepoint Capital: his LinkedIn profile lists 'Quantitative Research Intern' (headline rendering 'Quantitative Researcher') at Squarepoint, Paris, from 2025. Squarepoint is a genuine quantitative investment manager - its About page states it is 'a quantitative investment manager' using a 'systematic, diversified approach', tracing its lineage through Lehman Brothers and Barclays before becoming independent in December 2014. The employer therefore meets the quantitative-finance bar (systematic hedge fund), not merely a 'quant' name. Caveat: the role itself is evidenced by LinkedIn profile data (an index/aggregator rendering of the subject's own profile), not an independent primary-source announcement; the employer's quantitative nature IS primary-source confirmed.
• Identity verification: the LinkedIn profile linkedin.com/in/pablosotom has the headline 'Quantitative Researcher @ Squarepoint | MASEF @ Dauphine-PSL | M2A @ Sorbonne | JAE Intro CSIC @ ICMAT | Mathematician & Computer Engineer @ UAM | Nova 111 List', cross-matching the competition record of the IMO-2019 Spanish contestant (double degree in Mathematics and Computer Engineering at UAM, ICMAT/CSIC research internships), so the profile and the olympiad identity are the same person.
• Cross-source pattern: every documented paid/formal role through 2024 is either a research or software internship (ICMAT/CSIC, MathWorks, Oxford/PROMYS, CERN), while the MASEF postgraduate specialisation and the Squarepoint role both begin in 2024-2025 - the quantitative-finance step coincides with, and follows, the finance-mathematics training rather than the earlier pure-maths work.2025
• IMO 2019: competed for Spain in Bath, scoring 17/42 (rank 275, 55.9%) for a bronze medal; per-problem scores P1=1, P2=7, P3=0, P4=7, P5=2, P6=0.Jul 2019
• Identity is well-corroborated but the quantitative role rests on one family: the olympiad identity is confirmed by independent primary sources (IMO results, UAM, Vikidia), whereas the Squarepoint role is attested only by LinkedIn profile data. The strength of the former does not transfer to the latter.
• Won first prize (gold) at the 30th International Mathematics Competition for University Students (IMC) 2023, hosted at the American University in Bulgaria, 31 Jul-6 Aug 2023.Aug 2023
• Career timeline of non-quantitative research/tech roles: CERN High School Students Internship Programme (2019); PROMYS Europe counsellor at Oxford (2021); Symbolic Math Toolbox intern at MathWorks, Munich (2022, Groebner basis algorithms); ICMAT Severo Ochoa summer research student (2023 'Dynamical complexity and dimension'; 2024 with Prof. David Rios Insua and Airbus on an explicable agent for combat-pilot training); JAE Intro research internship at CSIC (2023-2024, 'Coisotropic embeddings of precosymplectic manifolds'). None is a quantitative-finance role.
• Education trajectory: Instituto San Mateo Bachillerato de Excelencia (2017-2019); Double Degree in Mathematics and Computer Engineering at UAM (2019-2024); Sorbonne Universite exchange/double-BSc (2022-2023); M2 Learning and Algorithms at Sorbonne Universite (2024-2025); MASEF at Universite Paris Dauphine - PSL (2025-2026). The actuarial/finance-mathematics specialisation (MASEF) postdates the pure-maths and CS training.
• Won gold at the Spanish Mathematical Olympiad 2019 (earning IMO 2019 selection), silver at the 2021 Iberoamerican University Mathematics Olympiad, and a first prize (second year of ESO) at the 2015 Concurso de Primavera de Matematicas.2019
• Awarded a CSIC JAE Intro undergraduate research grant for 2023-2024 at ICMAT.2023
• Recognised on the Nova 111 List (stated in the subject's own LinkedIn headline).
• Appeared with the UAM team at the International Mathematics Competition for University Students 2024, per a UAM advanced-problems page listing the team's results.2024