Trader Psyches Research Advisor Elise Payzan Le Nestour, PhD, has studied at the Laboratory of Decision-Making Under Uncertainty at the EPFL and Swiss Finance Institute, Lausanne. Before Lausanne, she completed the first two years of her PhD in the Department of Finance of the London School of Economics and has also studied at Princeton. She hold a masters degree in economics from the Paris School of Economics and a diploma in statistics from the Paris Graduate School of Economics, Statistics and Finance.

Dr. Payzan studies financial decision-making under uncertainty, at the intersection of neuroscience, machine learning, psychology and finance — e.g., trading and investment  behavior under various levels of uncertainty, the neural basis of different decision-making related uncertainty signals.