Felix Höfer

I am a fifth-year graduate student in the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering (ORFE) at Princeton University where I am advised by Professors H. Mete Soner and Emma Hubert. I obtained an MASt from the University of Cambridge (Part III Mathematics) and an MSc from the London School of Economics and Political Science. I completed my undergraduate studies at the Universities of Hamburg and Mannheim.

My research focuses on the optimal control of large stochastic systems, with particular interest in mean-field games, contract theory and their applications in macroeconomics. I have been awarded Princeton's SEAS Award for Excellence.

Selected presentations can be found here.

Recent preprints

Stationary Heterogeneous-Agent Models in Continuous Time
(submitted)

Convergence of Potential Mean-Field Games via Lyapunov Methods
(submitted)

Iterative Schemes for Markov Perfect Equilibria
with Mathieu Laurière, H. Mete Soner and Qinxin Yan (submitted)

Published papers

Markov Perfect Equilibria in Discrete Finite-Player and Mean-Field Games
with H. Mete Soner and Atilla Yılmaz, SICON (2026)

Optimal Control and Potential Games in the Mean Field
with H. Mete Soner, SPA (2026)

Synchronization Games
with H. Mete Soner, MOR (2025)