MAXIMILIAN AHRENS

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-Principal Investigator for the Alan Turing Institute 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.