MAXIMILIAN AHRENS

I'm a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oxford.  My main research interests lie in machine learning methods for natural language processing (NLP) and applications for narrative and misinformation detection, financial market modelling, and economic forecasting. 

I'm also the Co-Principal Investigator for the Alan Turing Institute Research Grant on Narrative Detection. In this capacity, I run the NarrativeLab together with my co-investigator Michael McMahon.

My PhD thesis is on multimodal language models for economics and finance. I'm a research member and co-organiser of the OxNLP Group at Oxford that focusses on NLP for social data science applications. I'm also a research member of the Machine Learning Research Group and the Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance.  

I'm the founder and chair of the Conference on NLP for Social Data Sciences (NLP SoDaS).

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Prior to my PhD work, I obtained an MPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford and an M.Sc. in Specialised Economic Analysis from the Barcelona School of Economics. I previously worked with McKinsey & Company,  the European Central Bank, and Man AHL.

May  2023: We are presenting our paper on multimodal NLP frameworks for central bank communication analysis at the ECONDAT 2023 Conference for Economics with non-traditional data and analytical tools jointly organised by the Bank of England, the European Central Bank, and the Data Analytics for Finance and Macro Research Centre at King's College London  (London, UK)