Charter

Research charter

An independent, self-funded research portfolio based in London, focused on adversarial systems, computational finance, political economy, and AI alignment.


01 · Profile

Research profile

Status

Independent, self-funded

Active since

October 2025

Location

London, United Kingdom

Researcher

Murad Farzulla

An individual research portfolio publishing open datasets, software, and preprints. Governance-focused work is carried out through the Dissensus research lab.

02 · Mission

Mission

Independent research at the intersection of quantitative finance, political economy, and artificial intelligence, building working systems that demonstrate novel approaches to governance alignment, financial modelling, and adversarial systems analysis, with an emphasis on reproducibility, open-source tooling, and practical implementation.

Governance-focused research is conducted through Dissensus, a governance alignment research lab exploring multi-agent dynamics, consent frameworks, and institutional design.

03 · Focus areas

Research focus areas

Focus

Adversarial systems

Multi-agent dynamics, consent frameworks, and friction analysis in complex systems.

Focus

Quantitative finance

Market microstructure, regulatory event studies, and volatility modelling.

Focus

Political economy

Legitimacy quantification, stakeholder consent versus technocratic competence.

Focus

AI alignment

Multi-agent systems with competing objectives, substrate-independent collaboration.

Focus

Research infrastructure

Kubernetes-native compute clusters and distributed systems for AI research. Technical infrastructure at Resurrexi.

04 · Philosophy

Research philosophy

05 · Open science

Open science policies

All research outputs comply with the OpenAIRE guidelines for open access and the FAIR data principles:

Zenodo community: zenodo.org/communities/farzulla

06 · Outputs

Research outputs

Output

Academic papers

Cryptocurrency volatility studies (TARCH-X), political legitimacy quantification, substrate-independent consciousness, trauma reframed as training-data quality, FX alpha asymmetries, and systemic-risk indices. Full list at research.

Output

Interactive dashboards

Research visualisations and parameter-exploration tools, including the live ASRI systemic-risk dashboard at asri.dissensus.ai.

Output

Open-source projects

Code repositories at github.com/studiofarzulla. All outputs archived with permanent identifiers via Zenodo.

07 · Investigator

Principal investigator

Murad Farzulla, MSc Finance Analytics (completed, awaiting certification).

MSc Finance Analytics, King's College London (2024 to 2025). BSc Accounting and Finance (First Class Honours), SOAS University of London (2021 to 2024).

Research interests: adversarial systems, multi-agent alignment, financial crime detection, market microstructure, and computational infrastructure.

08 · Contact & governance

Contact

Email ORCID GitHub Zenodo Dissensus

Governance

All research direction, project selection, funding decisions, and operational matters are determined by Murad Farzulla as the sole researcher and steward of this project. This charter serves as internal governance documentation for the research activity.

Future development

Current focus includes the Dissensus governance alignment research lab, alongside ongoing conversations with UCL supervisors about doctoral research in agent-based modelling and the econometric analysis of multi-agent systems. Should collaborators join in the future, governance may be restructured accordingly.


Last updated: June 2026

This site is the personal academic portfolio of Murad Farzulla, an individual, self-funded research activity, not a registered company or charity. All research outputs are disseminated through open-access channels. Governance-focused research is conducted through the Dissensus research lab.