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Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France
About Didier Sornette
- Didier Sornette (born June 25, 1957 in Paris) has been Professor on the Chair of Entrepreneurial Risks at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) since March 2006.
- He is also a professor of the Swiss Finance Institute, and a professor associated with both the department of Physics and the department of Earth Sciences at ETH Zurich.
- He was previously jointly a Professor of Geophysics at UCLA, Los Angeles California (1996–2006) and a Research Professor at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (1981–2006), working on the theory and prediction of complex systems.
- Pioneer in econophysics, in 1994, he co-founded with Jean-Philippe Bouchaud the company Science et Finance, which later merged with Capital Fund Management (CFM) in 2000.
- He left however Science et Finance in 1997 to focus on his shared position as Research Professor at the CNRS in France (1990-2006) and Professor at UCLA (1996-2006).
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