Julien Priol is a Junior ESG Researcher at EDHEC Climate Institute. Prior to joining EDHEC, Julien was a quantitative climate and financial risk analyst intern at Caisse des Dépôts, where he developed a Merton-type credit risk model related to transition risks (e.g. carbon tax). He then spent two years at Scientific Portfolio (an EDHEC venture), working on climate research applied to equity portfolio management. He holds a Master’s degree in applied mathematics from the University of Paris-Sorbonne, as well as a specialized Master’s in applied mathematics for finance from CentraleSupélec, where he focused on the quantification of physical and transition related climate risks.