MAXIMILIAN AHRENS

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in NLP | Co-Investigator for the Alan Turing Research Grant on Narrative Detection

NLP for narrative and misinformation detection | NLP for economic and financial modelling | NLP & causal inference

Oxford University | Department of Engineering Science | Department of Economics | OxNLP Group | Oxford-Man Institute

About me

I'm a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. My main research interests lie in machine learning methods for natural language processing (NLP) and applications for narrative and misinformation detection, financial market modelling and economic forecasting, and causal inference.

I'm also the Co-Principle Investigator for the Alan Turing Research Grant on Narrative Detection.

My PhD thesis is on multimodal language models for economics and finance. I'm a research member and co-organiser of the OxNLP Group at Oxford that focusses on NLP for social data science applications. I'm also a research member of the Machine Learning Research Group and the Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance.


I'm the founder and lead organiser of the Conference on NLP for Social Data Sciences (SoDaS) (previously named NLP for Economic and Financial Modelling).

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Prior to my PhD work, I obtained an MPhil in Economics from Oxford University and an M.Sc. in Specialised Economic Analysis from the Barcelona School of Economics. I previously worked as a consultant with McKinsey & Company, as a trainee economist with the European Central Bank, and as machine learning summer researcher/quant with Man AHL.

Selected Research

Ahrens, Erdemlioglu, McMahon, Neely, Yang:
Central bank speeches and market risk signals
working paper 2023

Ahrens, Marinov:
Towards multimodal document transformers
working paper 2022

Ahrens:
Identifying monetary policy shocks with natural language processing
MPhil thesis 2018


Teaching