Lars joined AQR Capital Management in 2000. Prior to joining AQR, Lars was a visiting graduate student in the economics department at Cornell University where his research interests were in financial econometrics and statistics. Before that, Lars worked as an Analyst in the Quantitative Research Group at Danske Invest, the largest asset management firm in Denmark. At Danske Invest Lars was responsible for developing the company’s macro based stock selection models. He received a B.Sc. and an M.Sc. in Economics from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.