I am trying to prepare to exit academia and transition into quantitative finance from a statistical physics background (after spending 6 years as a postdoctoral researcher). My experience covers heavy computation (Matlab/C++), stochastic processes (Brownian motion, Langevin/Fokker-Planck equations), and statistical mechanics, but I have little formal exposure to asset pricing. Given this background, I am looking to understand industry expectations: Feasibility: Is a transition into a standard qu