February 2025 News:
Special Issue in Finance Research Letters: Challenges in Low- and Middle-Income Countries – From Climate Change to Geopolitics. Call for Papers, Call opens on 1 April and closes on 31 July 2025. 

July 2024 News:
[1] After serving five years as Senior Editor, I was appointed Editor-in-Chief for Finance Research Letters.

February 2024 News:
I followed the W3-Ruf to Technische Universität Chemnitz, Germany, as a Professor of Finance and the Chair of Banking and Finance. 

October 2023 News:
Special Issue in Energy Economics in collaboration with Susana Campos Martins on Geopolitical Risks and Energy Markets - Call for Papers Call open now, Call closes on 31 July 2024
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I am a Professor of Finance and hold the Chair of Finance and Banking at Technische Universität Chemnitz, Faculty of Economics and Business, Germany. Previously, I worked as Associate Professor in Finance at Queen's Management School, Queen's University Belfast, UK. In 2022 and 2023, I was a EUNextGen-funded  Visiting Professor at the University of Barcelona School of Economics, Department of Econometrics, Statistics and Applied Economics.

I hold a PhD in Finance (2017) and a Master's degree in Financial Mathematics (2013) from Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany. I attended San Diego State University in 2010 and The University of Memphis as visiting scholar in 2016. I joined Queen's University Belfast as Assistant Professor in Finance in 2018. In 2019, I was a visiting scholar with the University of Barcelona, School of Economics in the Econometrics and Risk Management Group.

I am ranked in the recent 2022 Wirtschafts Woche/Handelsblatt ranking of the most research-intensive business economists under 40 years ("forschungsstärkste Betriebswirte unter 40") in German-speaking countries (Austria, Germany, Switzerland). 

My research interests include econometric modeling and machine learning within the fields of finance and economics, energy & carbon economics, the financialization of commodity markets and connectedness to financial markets such as equity and fixed-income markets and volatility forecasting with application in financial risk management and portfolio optimization.  

I am a member of the Royal Economic Society (RES), the British Academy of Management (BAM), the International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE), the European Finance Association (EFA), the Commodity & Energy Markets Association (CEMA), the German Finance Association (DGF), and the German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB) as well as a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA). 

I am one of the Editors-in-Chief for Finance Research Letters and an Associate Editor for the Journal of Climate Finance. I regularly serve as reviewer for several journals.