Julien Vaes

Postdoctoral Research Assistant at UCL

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Languages

  • Native: French
  • Fluent: English, Dutch
  • Intermediate: German

Software

  • AMPL
  • Latex
  • Matlab
  • OpenOffice

Programming

  • C
  • Java
  • Julia
  • Python
  • R
  • Scala

Interests

  • Field Hockey
  • Cycling
  • Hiking
  • Skiing
  • Climbing
  • Tennis
  • Windsurfing

Licences

  • Boating license
  • Driving license

Experience

Postdoctoral Research Assistant

2021 - 2022
University College London (UCL), London, United Kingdom.

Doctoral Student

2017 - 2022
The Alan Turing Institute, London, United Kingdom.

Tutor/Teaching Assistant

2018 - 2021
University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.

Continuous Optimisation (2021), Integer Programming (2018, 2020), Networks (2019).

Tutor

2015 - 2016
Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.

Mathematics (2016), Numerical Methods (2015, 2016).

Internship

June 2016 - August 2016
N-SIDE, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.

As member of the IT department, I have worked on a geographical decomposition algorithm for the European day-ahead electricity market.

Mathematics and Physics Teacher

2014 - 2015
La Maison des Sciences, Paris, France.

Helping students from an education priority area (EPA) to catch up on the national school program.

Placement Operator

June 2014 - August 2014
Lhoist, Jemelle, Belgium.

As member of the maintenance team for six weeks, I had the opportunity to discover and share the worker's hard conditions in lime plants.

Education

DPhil in Mathematics

2017 - 2022
University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.

Subject: Risk-averse Nash equilibria for power trading with market frictions
Supervisor: Professor Raphael Hauser

MSc in Applied Mathematics

2015 - 2017
Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.

Grade: Summa cum laude.

MSc in Engineering

2013 - 2015
École Centrale de Paris, Paris, France.

GPA: 4.04/4.33.

BSc in Applied Economics

2014 - 2015
Université Paris Dauphine, Paris, France.

Grade: Magna cum laude.

BSc in Applied Mathematics/Mechanics

2011 - 2013
Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.

Grade: Magna cum laude.

Awards

  • Education merit award granted by the Association des centraliens to 15 students for academic excellence and contribution to student associations of the Ecole Centrale. Awarded full tuition.

  • Education merit award De Bremaecker-Stockhem (Belgium), based on the academic results of the first year of Bachelor.