Andrea Macrina is Professor of Mathematics and the Director of the Financial Mathematics MSc Programme in the Department of Mathematics, University College London. Dr Macrina is Adjunct Professor at the University of Cape Town in the African Institute of Financial Markets and Risk Management where in 2014 he co-founded the Financial Mathematics Team Challenge (FMTC). He is a recipient of the Fields Research Fellowship awarded by The Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences. Prof. Macrina held a Senior Lectureship followed by a Readership in the Department of Mathematics, University College London, an Adjunct Professorship at the Department of Actuarial Science of the University of Cape Town, a Lectureship in Financial Mathematics in the Department of Mathematics, King's College London, a one-year Visiting Research Associate Professorship in the Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University, and a six-month Research Fellowship at ETH Zurich. Prof. Macrina is one of the principle developers of information-based asset pricing, a novel stochastic framework for, e.g., the pricing of a variety of asset classes including credit, fixed-income, equity, and insurance-linked assets. He is co-editor of a book on Financial Informatics, published in 2022, containing 18 foundational articles on the information-based modelling framework. He is a regular speaker at seminars and conferences worldwide where he presents his research findings to academics and industry professionals. His research programme includes collaborations with doctoral students, researchers at many international universities in Africa, Australia, East-Asia, Europe, North-America, and practitioners of the financial service industry in The City of London. Prof. Macrina is Associate Editor of the International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance and a member of the London Mathematical Society, the American Mathematical Society, the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability, and the Bachelier Finance Society. Prof. Macrina holds a PhD in Mathematics from King's College, University of London, and an MSc in Physics from the University of Bern, Switzerland. Languages: Italian, German, French, and English.