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Mesias Alfeus
editMesias Alfeus was born in Onamutai village in Namibia in 1989. He went to high school at Mweshipandeka. He was selected as a top learner in grade 12 Mathematics nationally[1]. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in Financial Risk Management at Stellenbosch University[2] in South Africa.
Education
editMesias Alfeus is trained as a Mathematician with a bachelors degree in Mathematics and Physics from the University of Namibia[3]. He completed his honours and masters in Financial Mathematics from Stellenbosch University[4]. He has a PhD in Quantitative Finance from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS)[5].
Awards
editMesias Alfeus is National Research Foundation (NRF) rated researcher who was awarded as a young researcher[6][7]. In January 2018 he won the Young Investigator Training Program (YITP) prize. The prize is used to promote scientific research and collaboration among internationally-recognised research institutions and also attempts to encourage the mobility of young scientists. The prize was used to fund his attendance at the XIX Workshop on Quantitative Finance held in late January 2018 at the University of Rome Tre. It also allowed him to spend one month conducting research at the Dipartimento di Matematica at the University of Padua, Italy where he was hosted by Professor Martino Grasselli. The research was presented at the 10th World Congress of the Bachelier Finance Society held in July in Dublin, Ireland of which Mesias said "I consider as the Heaven of Financial Mathematics"[8]
Current Positions
edit- Lead Principal Investigator for Quantitative Finance at the National Institute for Theoretical and Computational Sciences[9]
- Editorial Board Member at the Journal of Futures Markets[10]
- Node leader of the InSPiR2eS Centre for Responsible Science[11] (IC4RS)
References
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- ^ "Stellenbosch University". researcherprofiles.sun.ac.za. Retrieved 2024-06-04.
- ^ "Mesias Alfeus \ - Yahoo Video Search Results". video.search.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2024-06-04.
- ^ Sun, Namibian; Shikage, Wetumwene (2023-02-09). "Namibian researcher explores modern finance". Namibian Sun. Retrieved 2024-06-04.
- ^ "The incredible journey of Mesias Alfeus: from Namibia to UTS". University of Technology Sydney. 2019-06-03. Retrieved 2024-06-04.
- ^ "RESEARCH PROGRAMMES". NITheCS. Retrieved 2024-06-04.
- ^ "Bart Frijns on LinkedIn: Earlier this year, the Journal of Futures Markets opened two positions on…". www.linkedin.com. Retrieved 2024-06-04.
- ^ Aimee (2023-07-07). "Featured scientist: Mesias Alfeus". NITheCS. Retrieved 2024-06-04.