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I am a recent PhD graduate from the Chair of Macroeconomics: Innovation and Policy at ETH Zurich under supervision of Prof. Dr. Hans Gersbach. My research lies in the intersection of game theory, NLP and design of institutions. My educational background in mathematics and computational modelling as well as my interest in political economy & political philosophy allow me to work on interdisciplinary research projects in these fields. I am keen on broadening my academic horizon and research fields.

Further I am a former co-founding partner of S2S Ventures, a 10M pre-seed deep tech funding helping research based ventures with their fundraising.

Currently I am offering support for young tech startups for their fundraising strategy, Machine Learning Product Development and Tutoring.

Please feel free to reach out to me!

Contact details: juliawagner[at]gmail.com, LinkedIn

My current services

Fundraising

For young startups I offer different services to plan and to execute their fundraising strategy

ML Products

For different companies I offer services to build and launch new Machine Learning products

Tutoring

Independent if you are still at school or at uni I help you with your next mathematical challenge

Ongoing Research Projects

Policy Reforms and the Amount of Checks & Balances (with Hans Gersbach and Oriol Tejada, submitted)
Credence Policies and Experts in Democracy (with Hans Gersbach and Oriol Tejada)
Role of policy shocks in policy moderation
Newspaper coverage in uncertain times: Capturing anxiety through word embeddings (submitted)
Convergent development of self-governed institutions? Evidence from policy creation in Wikipedia language editions (with Zhaozhi Li, Weijun Yuan, Seth Frey, and Mako Hill)

Background

Founding partner at S2S Ventures
- Deal lead for sustainability and AI/ML startups
- Lead for the Zurich investment team
- Building up the VC network for S2S Ventures across Europe
PhD in Mathematical Game Theory at ETH Zurich
- ETH Foundation Grant "Co-voting Democracy: Benefits and Cyber-risks"
- Teaching assistant for master and doctoral courses
  - 2020: Strategic and Cooperative Thinking
  - 2021: Dynamic Macroeconomics, Innovation and Growth
  - 2022: Resilience in the New Age of Risk
- Part of the organizational team for the ETH Democracy Workshop (2020 and 2021)
- Responsible for chair's IT
- Taken courses at ETH and University of Zurich in Design of Institutions, NLP, Advanced microeconomics and Political Philosophy
MSc in Mathematical Modelling at University College London (with distinction)
- Master thesis in game theory: Modelling the ideal free distribution including the Allee effect
- Some of the taken courses: Nonlinear systems, Operational Research, Computational and Simulation Methods
BSc in Mathematics and Statistics in Economics at Technische Universität Wien
- Bachelor thesis: Welfare optimization models in energy trading markets
- Specialization courses in Operations Research at Instituto Superior Técnico at Lisbon

Talks, Schools and Conferences

Presented in the following Summer Schools
- Research incubator on Data-driven Modeling on Social Cohesion at University of Groningen (Summer 2022)
- Graduate conference "Formal Models of Democracy" at Erasmus University of Rotterdam (Spring 2022)
- 10th Summer Program "Parliamentary Democracy in Europe" at LUISS Guido Carli (Summer 2021)
- 7th Swiss Summer School in Democracy Studies at University of Zurich (2021)
Presented in the following Seminars
- Astute Modelling Seminar at ETH Zurich (Spring 2021)
- Astute Modelling Seminar at ETH Zurich (Autumn 2020)

Skills

Programming languages
- C, C ++ (basic), Matlab, Maple, GAMS, R, Python, Latex (advanced)
Languages
- - German (mother tongue), English (fluent), French (fluent), Italian & Spanish (basic)

Work experience

Head of ML Products & Growth at AVAYL
- Seed Pharma Tech company offering portfolio optimization and ML products
- Product Manager of two LLM (Large Language Models) based products and lead for customer growth
Supervision of significant institutions (Großbankenrevision) at the Austrian National Bank (2018)
- Review of specialized lending models according to EBA guidelines
- Quantitative Analysis of use tests consisting of several hundred customers with exposure of default in the amount of more than 5 billion euros
Founder of 8 Jahre in 5 Tagen (i.e. 8 years in 5 days) (Since 2015)
- Preparatory Courses for Austrian A-Levels (Matura/Reifeprüfung) in mathematics
- 5+ courses 3 times per year for 3+ different school types
Various internships in the insurance sector (ERGO, part of Munich Re), in the field of mobile advertising (formerly MobFox), in the area of mobility transformation (Austria Tech) and in the construction sector (formerly CEMEX)

Office: ETH Zurich, Zürichbergstrasse18, 8032 Zurich, Switzerland | Write me an E-Mail: jwagner[at]ethz.ch | Connect via LinkedIn

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