Summary
Malena Schmidt is a Senior Quantitative Analyst at G-Research with four years of quantitative and software engineering experience, promoted internally from analyst roles since joining in 2022. She combines a rigorous applied mathematics background from TU Delft and discrete mathematics from the University of Warwick with practical C++ and Python engineering, having built a production B-spline library used by the German Aerospace Center and authored published research on Laplacian continuous-time quantum walks as an undergraduate. At G-Research she bridges research and production, applying mathematical modeling and data analysis to trading problems. Comfortable learning new theory independently, she has a track record of turning academic insights into reliable software and presenting work at conferences. Based in the UK, she brings a blend of deep theoretical grounding and hands-on implementation that accelerates research-to-deployment cycles.
4 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
IB, IB at St. Clare's, Oxford
Erich Kästner Gymnasium
Bachelor of Science - BS, Discrete Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Discrete Mathematics at University of Warwick
Master of Science - MS, Applied Mathematics, Master of Science - MS, Applied Mathematics at Delft University of Technology
German, English, Dutch