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 Dr. Jan H. Maruhn
 Dipl.-Math. oec., M.Sc. (USA)




 
   



Personal Data 
   



Nationality
  German



Date of Birth
  July, 22nd, 1977



Place of Birth
  Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany 





   



Professional Experience
   



01/07 - present
  Quantitative Researcher, Financial Engineering Equities and Hybrids, Structured Products Development, UniCredit Markets and Investment Banking, HypoVereinsbank AG, Munich, Germany
  • Calibration of financial market models
  • Implementation and maintenance of pricing algorithms
  • Development and analysis of equity and hybrid models
  • Trading support within the front office
   12/02 - 12/06
  Research Associate of the Department of Mathematics, Numerical Analysis, University of Trier
  • 08/06-12/06: Supervision of the research project: Asset Liability Management. Project Partner: Frankfurt Trust
  • 02/04-08/06: Several research projects with Unicredit Group / HypoVereinsbank AG (partly supported by the grant Forschungsfonds 2005): Sample-Average-based Parameter Identification in Financial Market Models, Parameter Identification in Selected Stochastic Volatility Models, Static Hedging of Barrier Options
  • 10/05-12/05: Research Semester at the Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics (RICAM)
  • Teaching of graduate and undergraduate courses



06/01 - 09/01

Internship at McKinsey&Company, Inc.




Education
  
  
 12/02 - 12/06
  PhD studies at the Department of Mathematics, Numerical Analysis, University of Trier
  • 03/07: Conferral of the doctoral degree "Dr. rer. nat."
  • PhD thesis: Robust Static Super-Replication of Barrier Options
  • Doctoral advisor: Professor Dr. E. Sachs



 10/97 - 11/02
 Graduation as Diplom-Wirtschaftsmathematiker (Major: Mathematics / Business Administration) at the University of Trier
  • Mathematical focus: Numerical Analysis, Operations Research, Stochastic Processes / Mathematical Analysis of Financial Markets, Focus in Business Administration: Finance
  • 1998 - 2002: Graduate Assistantship. Participation in a project aimed at the sterilization of food in cooperation with Nestlé Research & Development.



 08/00 - 05/01
 Graduation as Master of Science (Major Mathematics) at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA
  • 08/00 - 05/01: Graduate Teaching Assistant
  • 11/00: Successful completion of the teaching certification process as a prerequisite for teaching at the department of Mathematics



 
  



Honors and Awards
  
   11/08
  Prize for the PhD thesis "Robust Static Super-Replication of Barrier Options" awarded by the association "Freundeskreis Trierer Universitaet e.V." and KPMG Luxembourg.
       
 

07/04

 Prize for excellent support of foreign exchange students at German universities (Project C.i.T.i.) awarded by the Department of Foreign Affairs (Auswärtiges Amt, Germany) and the German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst)
  
    
 

08/03 - 12/06

 Scholarship holder of e-fellows.net

 

04/01
 Affiliation to the Mathematics Honor Society "Pi Mu Epsilon"
  
    
 

08/00 - 05/01

 Award of a foreign exchange scholarship of the German National Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes) within the scope of a special program of the Allianz Lebensversicherungs AG
  
    
 

02/00 - 09/02
 Scholarship of the German National Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
 

 
  
 

Diverse Activities
  
 

08/02

 Attendance of the management academy of the German National Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes). Topic: Effective Communication
  
    
 

06/02 - 07/05
  Voluntary service at the registered association Internationales Zentrum an der Universität Trier e.V.
  • 2002-2003: Consulting of the executive board
  • 2003-2004: Member of the executive board of the registered association
  • 09/2003: Foundation of the C.i.T.i. project, an intercultural contact point at the University of Trier
 

    
 

Special Skills   
 

Languages  Native German Speaker, Fluent English, French
  
    



 IT Skills

  Microsoft Office, Lotus Notes, LaTeX, HTML, Basic, VBA, Fortran, Turbo Pascal, C, C++, Visual C++, Matlab, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Solaris, MS-Dos