Personal

• Date of birth: 27 August 1986
• Place of birth: Sopron, Hungary
• E-mail: stippingerm at the gmail simple dot com
• Nationality: Hungarian

Education

• 2001-2005: High School “Széchenyi István Gimnázium” (class specialized in Mathematics)
• 2005-2007: Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME), Faculty of Sciences (TTK), Engineering-Physics
• 2007-2009: Student at École Centrale de Lille (one of the top ten general engineering universities in France), in the double-degree program TIME (Top Industrial Managers for Europe)
• 2009-2011: Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME), Faculty of Sciences (TTK), MSc student in Physics
  

Professional work and internships

• 2007-2009: Our project “Biohand” at École Centrale de Lille won the 1st prize of the university.
• January 2008: ArcelorMittal (the world’s largest steel producer company), Factory of Dunkerque
• June-August 2009: Institut d’Électronique, de Microélectronique, et de Nanotechnologie Laboratory in Lille. Publication with the team LEMAC: “Tunable magnetoelastic phononic crystals”, APL. 95, 124104 (2009)
• 2010-2011: Participant in the Morgan Stanley CDO pricing project
• 2010-2011: Participant in the MSCI Risk project
• 2010-2011: My work “Efficient pricing of CDO contracts using compound Poisson model” won 3rd prize in the National Conference of Scientific Students’ Associations (OTDK)

Languages skills

• French (C1 level exam, fluent – two years of studies in France)
• English (C1 level technical exam, fluent)
• German (B2 level exam, fluent)

Awards and honors

• 2003-2004: OKTV in Informatics (the national high school competition) 3rd prize
• 2003-2004: OKTV in Programming (the national high school competition) 13th place
• 2004: Member of the Hungarian CEOI team (Central European Olympiad in Informatics)
• 2004-2005: OKTV in Physics (the national high school competition) 7th place
• 2004-2005: OKTV in Informatics (the national high school competition) 24th place
• 2004-2005: OKTV in Programming (the national high school competition) 2nd prize
• 2005: Prize of the High School “Széchenyi István Gimnázium Nívódíja”
• 2005: Prize of the town of Sopron “Sopron Ifjú Tehetsége Díj”
• 2005: International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) bronze medal
• 2006: Scholarship of the Prime Minister of Hungary

Interests

• At École Centrale de Lille, for one year I was the secretary of the student association Centr’All Games, which organizes the annual event “Lille aux Échecs” in the subject of popularization of different games and the chess.
• At École Centrale de Lille, I was the administrator of the XMPP-based instant messaging service, supplying 700 students.
• Others: cinema, literature. Music: playing the recorder (basic-level).
• Sports: cycling, table-tennis, swimming.