Professor Eckhard Platen joined UTS in 1997 from ANU. He was a joint appointment between the School of Finance and Economics and the School of Mathematical Sciences to the newly created Chair in Quantitative Finance.

Prior to this appointment he was the Founding Head of the Centre for Financial Mathematics at the Institute of Advanced Studies at the Australian National University in Canberra. He completed a PhD in Mathematics at the Technical University in Dresden in 1975 and obtained in 1985 his Dr.sc. from the Academy of Sciences in Berlin, where he headed the Sector of Stochastics at the Weierstrass Institute.

He is the co-author of three successful books on Numerical Methods for Stochastic Differential Equations, a book on his innovative Benchmark Approach, published by Springer Verlag, another monograph on Functionals of Multidimensional Diffusions with Applications to Finance and he has authored more than 190 research papers in quantitative finance and applicable mathematics. He has also held more than 90 visiting appointments at leading institutions world wide.

He serves or served on the Editorial Boards of the Bocconi-Springer book series and seven journals including Mathematical Finance, Finance and Stochastics and Quantitative Finance. He was for 25 years Chair of the annual Quantitative Methods in Finance conference series, which he started in 1993, and was President of the Bachelier Finance Society.