Pierre Simon

Pierre Simon is a French mathematician working in model theory (mathematical logic). He represented France at the 2003 International Mathematical Olympiad, earning a silver medal. He completed a PhD at Universite Paris-Sud (2011) under Elisabeth Bouscaren, held a CNRS charge de recherche post at Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (2014-2016), and was Assistant (2016-2019) and Associate (2019-2023) Professor of Mathematics at UC Berkeley before leaving the department in 2023. He authored 'A Guide to NIP Theories' (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and won the 2012 Sacks Prize.

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• Quant employment verification: UNRESOLVED. The only lead is an index-only entry showing a 'Quantitative Researcher' role from July 2021 whose employer name is redacted as 'Company'; no primary source (accessible LinkedIn, personal site, institutional page, or press) confirms any quantitative-finance role for him, and the employer therefore cannot be classified. His documented employers are academic — CNRS (Université Lyon 1, 2014-2016) and UC Berkeley (2016-2023) — none of which is a quantitative-finance employer; no bank, asset manager, hedge fund, market-maker, or energy/crypto trading firm appears anywhere in the public record checked. Because the evidence is unavailable/unsupported rather than affirmatively refuted, the claim is retained as unresolved.Jul 2021
• His peer-reviewed record runs continuously into 2026 — papers in 2022 and a joint JEMS paper dated 18 Feb 2024 (with M. Bays and I. Kaplan), plus a model-theory seminar at Notre Dame on 8 Sept 2026 — so his active public footprint is mathematical logic throughout, with no quant-finance appearance in any academic or professional source checked.Sep 8, 2026
• INDEX-ONLY, UNVERIFIED: a people index lists a current 'Quantitative Researcher' role starting July 2021 with the employer name redacted ('Company'); the 2021 start overlaps his UC Berkeley professorship (through 2023), and the entry is an index record, not primary-source confirmation, so neither the role nor any employer is verified.Jul 2021
• Career is entirely academic: CNRS chargé de recherche at Université Lyon 1 (2014-2016), UC Berkeley Assistant (2016-2019) then Associate Professor (2019-2023); the Berkeley department page lists him as a past member who left in 2023.2023
• The Berkeley department lists him as a 'past department member' (left 2023) while his own CV page still reads 'Associate Professor - UC Berkeley (2019-2023)'; together these fix the end of his professorship at 2023, and no subsequent institution is named on any page checked — leaving his activity after 2023 visible only through continuing research talks.2023
• Won the 2012 Sacks Prize (awarded annually to one thesis in mathematical logic worldwide) and shared the 2013 COLT Mark Fulk Student Award with Roi Livni.2012
• Recurring collaborators are Itay Kaplan, Artem Chernikov, Martin Bays, Elisabeth Bouscaren and (joint work) Mariana Vicaria — an entirely model-theoretic co-author network, which is itself evidence that no quant-finance employment surfaces in his public record.Feb 18, 2024
• PhD in mathematics (2011) at Université Paris-Sud under Élisabeth Bouscaren, thesis 'Ordre et stabilité dans les théories NIP' — model theory (mathematical logic).2011
• Represented France at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 2003, scoring 19 points (rank 98) and earning a silver medal; stated on his own CV and in official IMO team results.Jul 2003
• Author of 'A Guide to NIP Theories' (Lecture Notes in Logic, Cambridge University Press, 2015), a standard reference in model theory.2015