Ermes Braidot

Ermes Braidot is a quantitative trader at IMC financial markets & asset management since August 2012. Prior experience includes a postdoctoral position at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory from February 2011 to June 2012, and a PhD at Utrecht University focused on gluon saturation and Color Glass Condensate at STAR, RHIC, from June 2006 to January 2011. Additional research experience at Brookhaven National Laboratory involved assembling the Forward Meson Spectrometer (FMS) at STAR. Braidot holds a degree in Nuclear and Subnuclear Physics with a score of 110 from Università degli Studi di Trieste, completed in 2005, and a Physics degree from the same university with a score of 95, attained in 2003. Earlier education includes a diploma from Liceo Scientifico, where a score of 90 was achieved in subjects such as Math, Physics, English, and Italian Literature.