After working in the financial industry at Capital Fund Management (CFM), Michael Benzaquen joined the CNRS and the Hydrodynamics Laboratory of Ecole Polytechnique (LadHyX). He quickly built up a research team around themes related to Econophysics. He is a lecturer in the Economics Department of the Institut Polytechnique and teaches financial markets and the physics of social sciences at ENSAE. In 2018 he founded the X-CFM Chair “Econophysics and Complex Systems” marking the arrival of a new discipline on the Campus.
