Egor Im

Welcome

Hi, I'm Egor

I am a Quantitative Research Intern at Jane Street and a PhD candidate in Theoretical Physics at ETH Zürich.

About

I was born in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, the capital of Sakhalin Island in Russia's far east, and grew up between there and St Petersburg, where I earned my Bachelor's in Applied Mathematics and Physics from St Petersburg State University. Drawn to theoretical physics, I moved to Zürich, Switzerland, for a Master's at ETH Zürich and started a PhD programme at its Institute for Theoretical Physics, working on the mathematical foundations of fundamental physics. I've since made the leap from academia to finance, and I now work as a quantitative researcher intern at Jane Street in London, UK.

Interests

Theoretical Physics

Quantum Field Theory, String Theory, AdS/CFT Correspondence, Integrability, Quantum Groups, Scattering Amplitudes, Riemann Surfaces, Polylogarithms.

Hobbies

Software development, automation, machine learning, playing the guitar and drums, SUP.

Tech Skills

PythonMathematicaC/C++JavaNumPyMatplotlibPySide/PyQtSciPyMPI/MPI4PyopenMPGSLGitTensorFlowPandasscikit-learnIntelMKLBashLaTeXSQLite

Education

Doctor of Sciences in Theoretical PhysicsETH Zürich · Zürich, SwitzerlandJun 2021 – Ongoing
Master's Degree in PhysicsETH Zürich · Zürich, SwitzerlandSep 2019 – Apr 2021
Bachelor's Degree in Applied Mathematics & PhysicsSt Petersburg State University · St Petersburg, RussiaSep 2015 – Jun 2019

Work Experience

Quantitative Research InternJane Street · London, UKJul 2026 – Sep 2026
Scientific AssistantETH Zürich · Zürich, SwitzerlandJun 2021 – May 2026

Projects

Software

Article Management Tool

GitHub ↗

AMT lets you efficiently manage articles, books, lecture notes, etc. for scientific writing and compactly store bibliography metadata.

Features

Store research references · open entries in an external app · search within references · previews · pull metadata & PDFs from arxiv.org · search arXiv and add articles directly. Work in progress — more to come.

Schottky Tools

A Python package that numerically implements Schottky uniformization for Riemann surfaces, focusing on evaluating higher-genus polylogarithm functions.

Attribution

Developed as part of the work on arXiv:2406.10051 and arXiv:2409.08208. It will be made publicly available on my GitHub in future.

A curved-space simulator that lets you visualize and travel through hyperbolic and spherical 3-dimensional spaces. The first version was created 20 years ago by Niklas Beisert; the new version adds more efficient rendering via parallel processing and a friendlier interface. Built as an exhibition stand for "Nacht der Physik 2022" in Zürich.

Research output

Publications

Get in touch

Contact

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