Who we are

The team

Every contributor has a named byline — name, degree, university — and owns a named piece of the market for a term at a time.

Leads

Founder & Project Lead
Sophia Zampolli
MEng Chemical Engineering · Imperial College London
Co-Lead
Niccolò Contri
MSc Finance · University College London

Sector desks

Three analysts per desk, three to five companies per desk, one note every third week. Each desk page lists the companies it follows.

01Energy & Utilities
Analyst
Amelia Baillie
MSci Chemistry with Molecular Physics · Imperial College London
Analyst
Hamza Aldroubi
BEng Integrated Mechanical and Electrical Engineering · University of Bath
Analyst
Jaime Cortés Vilaplana
MEng Chemical Engineering · Imperial College London
Analyst
Milica Jeftic
BSc Biochemistry · Imperial College London
02Materials, Mining & Infrastructure
Analyst
Hector Nouailhetas
BSc Chemistry · King's College London
Analyst
Arjun Gill
BSc Economics, Finance and Data Science · Imperial College London
Analyst
Sofia Roveda
MEng Materials Science and Engineering · Imperial College London
03Chemicals
Analyst
Rudy Redshaw
BSc Chemistry · King's College London
Analyst
Oliver Prinz
MEng Chemical Engineering · University College London
Analyst
Melis Nurluoglu
MEng Chemical Engineering · Imperial College London
04Industrials, Capital Goods & Transport
Analyst
Sophia Zampolli
MEng Chemical Engineering · Imperial College London
Analyst
Luca Serpietri
BSc Mathematics with Management and Finance · King's College London
Analyst
Yasmeen Moussalem
MEng Civil and Environmental Engineering · Imperial College London
05Technology & Semiconductors
Analyst
Youssef Berrachid
MEng Electronics and Information Engineering · Imperial College London
Analyst
Tommaso Polenta
BSc Chemistry · King's College London
Analyst
Awais Ali
MSci Physics with Theoretical Physics · Imperial College London
06Healthcare Services & Medical Equipment
Analyst
Kate Akl
MEng Biomedical Engineering · Imperial College London
Analyst
Marianne Fayad
MEng Biomedical Engineering · Imperial College London
Analyst
Maya Halawi
MEng Biomedical Engineering · Imperial College London
Analyst
Zihan Yin
BSc (Hons) Medical Biosciences · Imperial College London
07Pharmaceuticals, Biotech & Life Sciences
Analyst
Sveva Romano
BSc Medical Biochemistry · Imperial College London
Analyst
Carlota Guillamet de Gracia
BSc Medical Biosciences · Imperial College London
Analyst
Lola Theato
BSc Medical Biosciences · Imperial College London
Analyst
Emily Sadaoui
BSc Medical Biosciences · Imperial College London
08Financials & Banks
Analyst
Maya Mitchkovski
BSc Psychological and Behavioural Science · London School of Economics
Analyst
Derin Seymen
BSc Economics, Finance and Data Science · Imperial College London
Analyst
Shrey Rawal
BSc Medical Biosciences with Management · Imperial College London
09Aerospace & Defence
Analyst
Katja Kosinova
BA International Relations · King's College London
Analyst
Noah Willheim
BBA Business Administration and Management · ESADE Business School
Analyst
Lorenz Haider
BSc Statistics and Data Analytics · University of Vienna
10Macro, Rates & FX
Analyst
Hannah Khalique
BSc Economics, Finance and Data Science · Imperial College London
Analyst
Valeria Batsouli
BSc Medical Biosciences · Imperial College London
Analyst
Arthur Yuan-Pritchard
BSc Medical Biosciences · Imperial College London
11Consumer, Retail & Luxury
Analyst
Natalia Hanks
MEng Chemical Engineering · Imperial College London
Analyst
Felicitas Jantsch
BSc Management · ESCP Business School
Analyst
Martina Lando
BA Cultural Heritage · Ca' Foscari University of Venice

Editors

The editors make every release publishable: structure, sourcing, spelling, plain English, and nothing that reads as advice. They also keep Decoded growing.

Editor
Hannah Khalique
BSc Economics, Finance and Data Science · Imperial College London
Editor
Maggie Brown
BSc Medical Biosciences · Imperial College London
Editor
Zihan Yin
BSc (Hons) Medical Biosciences · Imperial College London

Quarterly Market Recap

Four times a year, twelve weeks of sector coverage become one long piece on what actually happened.

Quarterly Recap
Emil Mingaliev
BSc (Hons) Finance · Bayes Business School
Quarterly Recap
Niccolò Contri
MSc Finance · University College London
Quarterly Recap
Aarohi Shah
BSc Social Sciences with Data Science · University College London

Outreach & Legal

Outreach brings in the people who write it and the people who read it. Legal reviews every release for anything that could read as advice or an unsupported allegation.

Events Manager
Carlota Guillamet de Gracia
BSc Medical Biosciences · Imperial College London
Outreach Officer
Felicitas
BSc Management · ESCP Business School
Head of Legal Counsel & Limitation of Liability
Andrew Mills
LLB Law · King's College London

Open seats

Own a piece of the market.

Desks recruit at the start of each term. No prior finance experience required — the requirement is that you can read a company's own announcements and write a sentence you can defend.

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