News | March 17, 2014
Placement Lerby Ergun: London School of Economics
PhD student Lerby Ergun has accepted a position as research officer at the London School of Economics (LSE).
Lerby is an alumnus of the TI MPhil program (2010) and a PhD candidate in economics at the Erasmus School of Economics (EUR). He also holds a MSc in Economics and an MSc in Finance (cum Laude) from the VU University Amsterdam. He has been a visiting scholar at the Stern business school of New York University (United States) in 2012.
Lerby works on his research project ‘Heavy tails in Financial Markets’ and he will defend his PhD thesis in the second half of 2014. His Supervisor is fellow Casper de Vries. His main research interests lie at the intersection of Extreme Value Theory and Financial markets.