Nicholas Surdel, PhD

Senior Associate, Strategic Initiatives

Nicholas Surdel is a Senior Associate at RA Capital. His primary responsibilities include deal sourcing, diligence, and fundamental equity research, as well as multi-asset portfolio management. Prior to RA Capital, he interned as a Quantitative Analyst at HPS Investment Partners (acq. BlackRock) where he sourced and manipulated data to help transition deal origination fundamentals into quantamentals. Nicholas holds a BS in Psychology from University of Florida, a MS in Psychological Science from William and Mary, and a PhD in Psychology and Neuroscience from Yale University, where he researched how people judge the capabilities of robots.