Didier Sornette
Didier Sornette (born June 25, 1957 in Paris) is Professor on the Chair of Entrepreneurial Risks at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich). He is also a professor of the Swiss Finance Institute, a professor associated with both the department of Physics and the department of Earth Sciences at ETH Zurich, an Adjunct Professor of Geophysics at IGPP and ESS at UCLA. He was previously jointly a Professor of Geophysics at UCLA, Los Angeles California and a Research Director on the theory and prediction of complex systems at the French National Centre for Scientific Research. In 2004, Sornette used Amazon.com sales data to create a mathematical model for predicting bestseller potential based on very early sales results. He has worked on the King effect, a theory used to predict economic bubbles, and has set up the "Financial Crisis Observatory".