Simone Peirone
Managing Consultant at Quant Professionals B.V.
Leiden, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolSimone Peirone is a managing consultant with a decade of quantitative experience who transitioned from a PhD in theoretical cosmology to applied model validation and consulting in the financial sector. Trained at Leiden and Trieste, Simone combines deep expertise in mathematical modelling, Bayesian data analysis, and scientific programming with hands-on experience validating and implementing models at Rabobank, Ayvens, and Quant Professionals. His academic work—15 peer-reviewed papers and contributions to the ESA Euclid theory working group—underscores a rigorous, experiment-informed approach to theory and data. In industry roles he has progressed rapidly from junior validator to managing consultant, reflecting both technical aptitude and leadership in cross-team projects. He is comfortable translating complex probabilistic models into auditable, production-ready solutions and often bridges domain specialists and stakeholders. A not-obvious strength is his fluency in both cutting-edge cosmological inference and regulatory-focused model validation, enabling novel perspectives on model risk and empirical validation.
10 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Physics at Leiden UniversityMaster's degree Theoretical Physics, Master's degree Theoretical Physics at Università degli Studi di Trieste
Italian, English, French, Dutch, piedmontese
Github Skills (8)
libgit29
hacklang9
git-repository9
git-lfs8
git6
sampling3
machine-learning2
mcmc1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
simonepeirone/EFTCosmoMC_G3
Mar 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:22 pushes, 3 branches in 6 months
luis-atayde/EFTCAMB-Covariant_Galileons_Extended
Jul 2018 - Jun 2019
Contributions:14 pushes, 2 branches in 11 months
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