Biography:
Petra Posedel Simovic is an Assistant professor at the Faculty of Agriculture and visiting Assistant professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb. Her areas of scientific and professional interest are data science and data analytics, stochastic volatility models, risk modeling and financial econometrics. She was a researcher on several scientific projects, and since February 2020 she has been a researcher on the Croatian Science Foundation project "Deep Reinforcement Learning Algorithms". She has published scientific papers in several world journals in the field of mathematical statistics, quantitative finance and computational economics. She has visited several institutions abroad as a guest researcher (Bocconi University, Italy, Aarhus University, Denmark, Technische Univesität Wien, California Institute of Technology). She is a founder of Finquant, a consulting service on business deep analytics and financial risk management