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• Science, Technology and Innovation Policy
• Financial Innovation
• Biosecurity and Geopolitics
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Prof Paul Nightingale is a Professor of Strategy at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) within the University of Sussex Business School. His career spans industry (analytical environmental toxicology) and academia, with a DPhil from the University of Sussex focusing on technological change and computer simulations. He has led major research initiatives like NESTA’s Innovation Gap project, highlighting disconnects between innovation policy and practice. Education: BSc Chemistry, University of Southampton (1986-1989) MSc Innovation Management, University of Sussex (1989-1990) DPhil (PhD), University of Sussex (1993-1997) Research Interests: Science/Technology Policy Financial Innovation and Small Firm Funding Project Delivery and Uncertainty Management Biosecurity and Emerging Technologies Critique of Entrepreneurship Policy Grants & Projects: Leading multiple ESRC grants on project delivery and security governance Co-investigator in EPSRC infrastructure studies Contributed to EU-funded RISIS innovation policy research Teaching: SPRU 1.01 foundational module for MSc students Online delivery of innovation studies curricula Key Contributions: Challenged traditional innovation metrics in policy Developed frameworks for complex project governance Authored influential critiques of entrepreneurship research bias

Stephen H. ShoreView profile

Professor

• Mortgage and Credit Card Default
• Income Dynamics
• Income Risk
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Stephen H. Shore is the R. Means Davis Professor of Risk Management and Insurance at Georgia State University’s Robinson College of Business. He also serves as Executive Director of the S.S. Huebner Foundation for Insurance Education. With a Ph.D. from Harvard University and an undergraduate degree from Princeton University, Dr. Shore has held faculty positions at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins University. His research focuses on mortgage/credit card default mechanisms, income dynamics, and household risk-sharing strategies. Education: Ph.D. in Economics, Harvard University M.A. in Economics, Harvard University A.B. in Economics (highest honors), Princeton University His research explores how economic risks impact households through studies on income volatility transmission across generations, labor market resilience, and policy interventions like the Treasury’s HAMP program. Recent work examines post-disaster financial behavior following Hurricane Harvey and educational pathways’ earnings impacts. Awards: Recipient of the Arrow Prize (2005) for Risk and Career Choice Professional Contributions: Served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Office of Economic Policy. Active in policy-relevant research with a focus on mortgage markets, savings behavior, and disaster economics. His work bridges microeconomic behavior and macroeconomic policy through rigorous empirical analysis.

Ádám ZawadowskiView profile

Associate Professor

• Financial Frictions
• Attention Allocation
• Liquidity Management
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Ádám Zawadowski is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the Central European University (CEU) since 2015, previously serving as Head of the Department from 2020 to 2023. Before joining CEU, he held an Assistant Professor position at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business. He earned his MSc in engineering-physics from Budapest University of Technology and Economics, MA in Economics from CEU, and PhD in Economics from Princeton University. His research focuses on financial frictions, attention allocation, liquidity dynamics, credit default swaps, and systemic risk in financial networks. He also explores econophysics, applying statistical physics principles to stock market behavior. His work bridges theoretical models with empirical analysis, addressing topics like private credit markets, complexity distortions in financial decision-making, and the structural interplay between CDS markets and bond pricing. Zawadowski’s publications span top journals including Review of Financial Studies , Journal of Economic Theory , and Quantitative Finance . His research on systemic risk in entangled financial systems proposes policy interventions like OTC contract taxes. He has also contributed to understanding liquidity hoarding mechanisms during funding shocks and the role of active investors’ consumption patterns in asset pricing dynamics. His Hungarian-language publications critique domestic investment fund performance metrics and highlight methodological gaps in measuring fund success. He maintains an active Google Scholar profile and a personal blog discussing financial markets in Hungarian.

Heather HughesView profile

Professor

• Commercial Law
• Blockchain Technology and Law
• Secured Transactions
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Heather Hughes is a Professor of Law at American University’s Washington College of Law (WCL), specializing in commercial, business, and property law. She joined WCL in 2007 after practicing corporate law with Morrison & Foerster LLP and serving as a founding faculty member at Florida International University College of Law. Her research focuses on the intersection of emerging technologies (especially blockchain) and legal frameworks, with an emphasis on secured transactions, fintech policy, and legal education reform. Dr. Hughes holds a J.D. (cum laude) from Harvard Law School and a B.A. in History (with honors) from the University of Chicago. Her educational background combines rigorous legal training with interdisciplinary historical analysis, informing her approach to modern legal challenges. Her research interests span blockchain’s impact on legal systems, financial inclusion through technology, and the evolution of secured transactions law. Notable projects include analyzing blockchain’s role in collateral management, designing regulatory frameworks for digital markets, and rethinking student loan financing mechanisms. Her publications reflect a focus on technology’s legal implications, with recent articles exploring smart contracts, cryptocurrency regulation, and the future of secured transactions in a digital economy. She has received awards for both scholarship and teaching, including the WCL Excellence in Teaching Award (2019) and the Edwin A. Mooers Scholar Award (2017). While no student advisees are listed, her teaching contributions include developing curricula on digital-age legal practice and fintech compliance. Her work bridges academic research and practical legal challenges, advocating for adaptable frameworks that address technological advancements without stifling innovation.

Dimitrios TsomocosView profile

Professor

• Banking and Regulation
• Financial Stability
• Systemic Risk
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Professor Dimitrios Tsomocos is a Professor of Financial Economics at the Saïd Business School and a Fellow in Management at St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford. He holds a BA, MA, MPhil, and PhD from Yale University, and previously worked at the Bank of England. His research focuses on financial stability, systemic risk, banking regulation, and macroeconomic policy, with significant impact on global economic policy. He co-developed the Goodhart-Tsomocos model of financial fragility, widely used by central banks. Education: Yale University (BA, MA, MPhil, PhD in Economics). Research interests include banking regulation, systemic risk, incomplete asset markets, and macroprudential policy. He advises central banks and has contributed to policy reforms in multiple countries. His work emphasizes financial stability frameworks and the interplay between monetary policy and financial crises. Notable contributions include designing models for assessing financial stability and advising on Basel Accord implementations. Awards include the 2004 Bank Sabadell Prize for banking economics. Teaching: Advanced Asset Pricing, Fixed Income, and courses at Saïd Business School. Supervises doctoral students in finance and economics, many of whom hold prominent roles at institutions like the IMF and central banks.

• Household Finance
• Behavioral Economics
• Real Estate Economics
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Changcheng Song is an Associate Professor of Finance at the Warrington College of Business, University of Florida. His research focuses on household finance, behavioral economics, real estate economics, and experimental economics. He employs both observational and experimental methods to study topics such as entrepreneurial activity, healthcare efficiency, liquidity constraints, and financial literacy. His work has been published in top journals like the Review of Financial Studies and Management Science. Song received his B.A. from Tsinghua University and his Ph.D. in Economics from UC Berkeley. He has conducted field experiments in multiple countries, including China, Singapore, and Kenya. His teaching includes courses on real estate finance, analytics in finance, and development economics. Research Interests: Household finance decisions, macroeconomic policies, behavioral economics, entrepreneurship, healthcare access, and financial education. His experiments investigate barriers to financial product adoption and evaluate policy interventions in diverse contexts. Publications span topics such as home-based business reforms, healthcare IT innovations, pension contribution behavior, and ethnic investing effects. Collaborations include work in China’s public hospital systems, Singapore’s housing markets, and microfinance initiatives in developing economies.

Rutger-Jan LangeView profile

Associate Professor

• Time-Series Econometrics
• Financial Econometrics
• Optimal Stopping Theory
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Rutger-Jan Lange is an Associate Professor at the Econometric Institute of Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam. His research spans time-series econometrics, filtering, stochastic processes, real options, and optimal stopping. He completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge and has held positions at Boston Consulting Group and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Education: PhD in Management Science & Operations Research (Cambridge), Master's in Theoretical Physics (Cambridge). Research Interests: Focus on developing advanced econometric models for financial forecasting, climate policy optimization, and high-dimensional data analysis. Recent work integrates machine learning with traditional econometrics to enhance predictive accuracy. Publication Trends: Articles emphasize methodological innovations in time-series analysis (e.g., Bellman filtering), applications in climate economics, and real-option valuation. Cross-disciplinary themes include quantum physics and financial risk modeling. Research Supervision: Mentors PhD students in projects on score-driven filters and economic modeling. Received a Starter Grant to fund new PhD positions. Affiliations: Tinbergen Institute, Econometric Institute, ERIM.

• Financial Economics
• Asset Pricing
• Forecasting
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Dr. Dinh Phan is an Associate Professor of Finance at La Trobe Business School, La Trobe University. He holds a PhD from Deakin University and has previously held academic positions at Monash University Malaysia, Taylor’s University, and Deakin University. His research focuses on financial economics, asset pricing, forecasting, energy finance, and corporate finance. He has been recognized as a leading researcher in Australia, including being named a 'Rising Star' and among the Top 40 young researchers in 2020, and received La Trobe Business School’s Mid-Career Researcher Award in 2020. Dr. Phan’s expertise includes corporate finance, financial econometrics, and financial markets. He has published extensively in top journals such as the Journal of Business Finance & Accounting , Energy Economics , and Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money . He currently serves as a subject editor for the Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money and Emerging Markets Finance and Trade . His research highlights include studies on green innovation’s impact on corporate default risk, geopolitical risk’s influence on bank stability, and the economic policy uncertainty’s relationship with financial stability. His work often explores global perspectives, including cross-country analyses of corporate investment, energy markets, and pandemic responses. Dr. Phan teaches courses such as Econometrics of Financial Markets , Equity Securities , and Financial Management . He is open to supervising Masters and PhD students, collaborating on research projects, and engaging with industry and media.

• Banking
• Corporate Finance
• Financial Institutions
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Prof. Yuna Heo is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Basel and a Swiss Finance Institute (SFI) Faculty Member. She holds a Ph.D. in Finance and is affiliated with the Faculty of Business and Economics, Department of Finance. Her research focuses on banking, corporate finance, climate finance, and corporate sustainability, employing empirical methods to address theoretical debates. She previously served as an Assistant Professor at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her research is organized into three streams: 1) financial institutions and market interactions, 2) climate finance impacts on banking and corporate behavior, and 3) determinants of corporate sustainability. Notable projects include studying climate change's effects on bank fragility and corporate cash strategies. She teaches courses such as Corporate Finance, Sustainable Finance, and Derivative Securities. Prof. Heo’s work has been presented at leading conferences including the FMA European Conference and the World Finance Conference. She collaborates with institutions like the Risklab/Bank of Finland and the Sustainable Financial Innovation Centre. Her publications appear in Journal of Corporate Finance and Applied Economics . She maintains an active profile on SSRN and Google Scholar.

• Banking
• Risk Management
• Financial Technologies
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Meryem Duygun is Professor of Banking and Finance at Nottingham University Business School, University of Nottingham, holding the Aviva Chair in Risk and Insurance. She directs the INFINITY (Inclusive Financial Technology Innovation Hub) and serves as President of IFABS. Her research focuses on risk modeling, financial technologies, and sustainable finance. Key research areas include: Banking risk and financial stability FinTech innovation and digital finance Sustainable finance and ESG integration Credit risk modeling using AI/ML techniques Her recent publications predominantly explore financial system resilience during crises, FinTech disruption, and sustainable finance mechanisms. The research employs advanced quantitative methods including artificial intelligence to analyze credit risk, market structures, and systemic vulnerabilities. Professor Duygun has received multiple prestigious awards including Fellowship of the Academy of Social Sciences and inclusion in Women in FinTech Powerlists. She leads major research projects funded by UKRI-ESRC, British Academy, and Research England, collaborating with institutions including Bank of England and UNIDO.

Xuan WangView profile

Assistant Professor

• Macro-Finance
• International Finance
• Financial Intermediation
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Xuan Wang is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam) and a Research Fellow at Tinbergen Institute. Previously, she worked as an economist at the Bank of England and earned her D.Phil. in Financial Economics from the University of Oxford's Saïd Business School (2020), alongside an MPhil in Economics (Distinction) from the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on macro-finance, international finance, financial intermediation, and sustainable macro-finance. She has organized major conferences such as the 2022 and 2023 Oxford-Saïd Macro-Finance Conferences and serves on the programme committees of leading academic events. Education: PhD in Financial Economics (University of Oxford, 2020); MPhil in Economics (Distinction, University of Oxford, 2014); Clarendon Scholarship recipient (2015) and China Oxford Scholarship recipient (2012). Research interests include the interplay between monetary policy and corporate debt, default risks in currency unions, and the role of financial intermediation in macroeconomic stability. Notable awards include being a finalist in the 2020 ECB Young Economist's Competition. Teaching: Macroeconomics with Financial Frictions (PhD/MPhil level) at Tinbergen Institute and International Financial Management at VU Amsterdam. She supervises PhD, MPhil, and MSc students. Recent activities include organizing the 2025 Oxford-Saïd Macro-Finance Conference and presenting at global forums like the World Congress of the Econometric Society.

Laura Capera-RomeroView profile

Assistant Professor

• Banking Competition
• Sustainability and Microfinance
• Financial Innovation
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Dr. Laura Capera-Romero is an Assistant Professor at the Finance Department of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, affiliated with the School of Business and Economics. She holds a PhD in Economics from Tilburg University (2020), a Research Master in Economics (with distinction) from Tilburg University (2016), and an MSc in Economics from Universidad de Los Andes (Colombia, 2014). Prior to her academic career, she worked at the Central Bank of Colombia’s Financial Stability Department. Her research focuses on banking competition, microfinance, sustainability, and the impact of regulation on financial access. She employs empirical industrial organization methods to analyze innovation and policy effects in retail banking and emerging markets. Current teaching includes Corporate Finance with a Sustainability Perspective, International Banking (Part-Time MBA), and thesis supervision. Key collaborations involve Tinbergen Institute and Latin American institutions, reflecting her expertise in regional financial systems. Notable outputs include studies on REIT environmental performance, multivariate volatility forecasting, and microcredit market dynamics in Colombia. She has contributed to policy-relevant research on usury ceilings and financial stability.

• Applied Statistics
• Biostatistics
• Machine Learning and Causal Inference
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Dr. Emmanuel Ogundimu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Durham University and a Fellow of the Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing. His research focuses on applied statistics, biostatistics, machine learning, causal inference, missing data methodology, and models for rare events. He has contributed to high-impact studies in healthcare, finance, and statistical theory, including clinical trials, predictive modeling in credit scoring, and methodological advancements in sample selection and imputation techniques. Key publications include work on randomized controlled trials for autism interventions, colonoscopy performance optimization, and regularization techniques in econometric models. His interdisciplinary approach bridges statistical theory with practical applications in healthcare and finance. Dr. Ogundimu currently supervises three students: Adam Iqbal, Adam Stone, and Duaa Nadhrah. He collaborates widely, evidenced by his co-authored publications across medical journals and statistical methodologies. His research emphasizes rigorous statistical methods for addressing real-world challenges, such as improving healthcare outcomes through robust data analysis and enhancing predictive accuracy in rare event scenarios. He is actively involved in advancing statistical models for bounded outcomes, missing data, and skewed distributions, contributing to both theoretical and applied statistical literature.

Zsófia KräusslView profile

Researcher

• Digital Finance
• Data Science
• Credit Risk Management
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Zsófia Kräussl is a Research Scientist in Finance & Technology and Study Director at the University of Luxembourg within the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance. She previously served as a Visiting Scholar at the Goldman School of Public Policy's Center for Studies in Higher Education. Holding a PhD in information systems management and requirements engineering (2011), her research focuses on digital innovation, data valuation, socio-economic impacts of digitization, and credit risk assessment in household finance. She leads an MSc program in Digital Finance, integrating curriculum design expertise with empirical studies on educational outcomes. Her work examines the performance effects of digitization on default prediction and household debt management. While no specific awards are noted, her contributions span academic publications in journals and conference proceedings. She actively engages in educational research, analyzing factors influencing study program design and curriculum development at universities. No advisory roles or grants are explicitly detailed in available records.

• Empirical asset pricing
• Option pricing
• Derivatives
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Dr. Diego Amaya is an Associate Professor and Goldberg Family Foundation Fellow in Finance at Wilfrid Laurier University's Lazaridis School of Business and Economics. His research focuses on empirical asset pricing, derivatives markets, and financial risk management. With expertise spanning option pricing models, high-frequency trading analysis, and market volatility, his work contributes significantly to understanding financial market mechanisms. His research interests center on developing advanced methodologies for analyzing market behaviors, particularly in derivatives and high-frequency trading environments. Dr. Amaya's investigations into option markets, volatility patterns, and risk assessment frameworks provide valuable insights for both academic research and practical financial applications. Dr. Amaya's publications reflect a consistent focus on quantitative finance methodologies, with recent work exploring nonstandard errors in financial modeling, international stock return predictability, and price discovery mechanisms in options markets. His research employs sophisticated econometric techniques to address complex financial questions. His scientific contributions have been recognized through the Goldberg Family Foundation Fellowship in Finance, highlighting his impactful research in financial economics.