Peter Gerlagh

Peter Gerlagh is a Dutch quantitative analyst at KYOS Energy Consulting, working on quantitative modelling and advisory for European energy markets. He was an IMO bronze medallist for the Netherlands in 2013 and an IMO gold medallist in 2014, then studied Physics at the University of Cambridge (Master's, 2014-2018) and completed a PhD in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics at Heriot-Watt University (2019-2023). In 2024 he worked as a Quantitative Data Engineer at Susquehanna International Group in Dublin, and since January 2025 has been a Quantitative Analyst at KYOS Energy Consulting.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Two actual quantitative-finance roles are supported: Quantitative Data Engineer at Susquehanna International Group (SIG), Dublin, May-Oct 2024 - SIG is a global quantitative trading/market-making firm per its own site - and Quantitative Analyst at KYOS Energy Consulting (from Jan 2025), which does quantitative modelling and advisory for European energy trading and risk. Identity is corroborated (LinkedIn + PhD/education + Python/kyos GitHub handle). His non-quant roles (Zero Hunger Lab research intern, Softwire software engineer, academic physics stints) are distinguished from these. Employer classification verified at the employer-description level, not from the word 'quant' in a title.Sep 17, 2026
• KyOS Energy Consulting (kyos.com) provides quantitative modelling and advisory on trading and risk management in European energy (power, gas, renewables) markets; his Quantitative Analyst role there is a genuine quantitative-finance role, not a generic analyst title.Jan 1, 2025
• Susquehanna International Group (SIG) describes itself as 'a global quantitative trading firm'; his 2024 Quantitative Data Engineer role in the Dublin office is therefore at a genuine quantitative trading employer, though the data-engineering nature of the role is distinct from a trading/strategy seat.May 1, 2024
• PhD in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh), 2019-2023; earlier Master's degree in Physics at the University of Cambridge (2014-2018) and VWO at Theresialyceum, Tilburg (2007-2014). Index/LinkedIn-derived (taiga-581972449), consistent with the Olympiad timeline.
• Active in the Python community under the handle 'petercordia' on discuss.python.org and as GitHub user 'peter-gerlagh-kyos' (contributing to pandas-stubs, pydantic, httpx, openapi-python-client); the kyos suffix and Python-tooling focus corroborate the KYOS role and a hands-on data-engineering skill set.Feb 26, 2025
• IMO 2014 (Cape Town, South Africa) gold medal for the Netherlands: 31 points, rank 34 (94.1%), team's second-highest score.Jul 1, 2014
• IMO 2013 (Santa Marta, Colombia) bronze medal for the Netherlands: 23 points, rank 138, per-country team results table.Jul 1, 2013
• Pre-PhD research trajectory is academic physics, not finance: Research Assistant in Conformal Field Theory with Prof Hugh Osborn at Cambridge (2017), Visiting Researcher with Prof Anatoli Polkovnikov at Boston University (2018, fast-forward Hamiltonians), and Research Intern at IST Austria on spin chains / counter-diabatic Hamiltonians (2018-2019).
• Between the PhD and KYOS he held a 2024 Research Intern role at the Zero Hunger Lab (Tilburg University), a data-science/operations-research group - a non-finance academic internship that sits between his physics PhD and his quant-analyst move.Jan 1, 2024
• A 2016 Software Engineer stint at Softwire (London) building an internal Python-backed website is his earliest listed technical work, a summer-style role roughly between high school and Cambridge.Jan 1, 2016
• Local press (Omroep Brabant) covered the IMO 2014 gold in July 2014, identifying him as an 18-year-old; this is contemporaneous Dutch-media confirmation of the Olympiad identity, not a career source.Jul 12, 2014
• Also medalled at the Benelux Mathematical Olympiad (BxMO): bronze in 2011 and an honourable mention in 2012, per the Dutch Mathematical Olympiad 2013 annual report referenced in regional coverage.Jan 1, 2013