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Students who have graduated since 2006, with their first placements after the PhD. For postdoctoral researcher positions, we also add the subsequent placement where possible.
Successful recent academic placements include faculty positions at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (USA), SAFE at Goethe University Frankfurt (Germany), University of Melbourne (Australia), Tilburg University and VU Amsterdam (Netherlands), University of Vienna (Austria), University of St. Gallen (CH) and various postdoctoral positions, for example at MIT, LSE or EPFL.
PhD Student | PhD Thesis | Supervisor | Next Employment |
Winta Beyene | Essays in Empirical Banking and Climate Finance | Steven Ongena | Postdoctoral Researcher, Leibniz Institute for Financial Research, Sustainable Architecture for Finance in Europe (SAFE), Germany |
Soros Chitsiripanich | New Momentum, Reversal, and Multivariate Discrete Mixtures for Portfolio Selection | Marc Paolella | Quant Engineer, Quantarea AG, Stettlen, Switzerland |
Giulio Cornelli | Essays on Fintech and Digital Currencies | Steven Ongena | Bank for International Settlements, Basel, Switzerland |
Adrian Fuhrer | Essays in Quantitative Finance | Walter Farkas | Risk Manager Capital Allocation, Postfinance, Bern, Switzerland |
Luca Gaegauf | Essays in Finance | Felix Kübler | Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland |
Daniel Grosshans | Beliefs in Financial Economics | Thorsten Hens | Postdoctoral Researcher, Economic Psychology, University of Basel, Switzerland |
Linda I. Hain | Statistical Finance: Insuring Climate Risks | Markus Leippold | Associate Director CatBond Portfolio Management, Twelve Capital, Zurich, Switzerland |
Isabella Kooij | Sustainability Integration and Trading Behavior in Financial Markets | Thorsten Hens | To be confirmed |
Adrien-Paul Lambillon | Sustainable Finance or Financialization of Sustainability? | Marc Chesney | Sustainability VP, Member of ManagementSustainability VP, Member of Management at Partners Group, Baar, Switzerland |
Alexandra Matyunina | Essays on Bank Credit Supply | Steven Ongena | Banco de España, Madrid, Spain |
Luzius Meisser | Essays in Decentralized Finance | Thorsten Hens | Board member at Bitcoin Suisse, Cofounder Aktionariat, Board member at Frankencoin Association, Zug, Switzerland |
Mohammad Hassan Sadeghi | Selected Statistical Approaches in Quantitative Risk Management | Marc Paolella | To be confirmed |
Michal Svaton | Essays in Volatility | Markus Leippold | Manager (Market Risk), EY, Prague, Czech Republic |
Qian Wang | Three Essays in Financial Machine Learning | Markus Leippold | CIO, Inovest Partners, Baar, Switzerland |
Vincent Wolff | The Economics of Financial Markets with Frictions: Risk-Taking, Market Liquidity, and Transaction Taxes | Marc Chesney | To be confirmed |
PhD Student | PhD Thesis | Supervisor | Next Employment |
Ming Deng | Corporate Communication and News Media in the Financial Market | Thorsten Hens | Quantitative Analyst, LGT Private Banking, Zürich, Switzerland |
Jiyuan Huang | Factor structure and Machine Learning in Finance | Per Östberg | Assistant Professor at Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary |
Konrad Kevin Meyer | Three Essays in Finance | Michel Habib | Assistant Vice President Scenario Design, HBSC, New York City, USA |
Stefan Pohl | Three Essays on Empirical Financial Intermediation | Steven Ongena | To be confirmed |
Reto Rey | Three Essays in Small Business and Consumer Finance | Thorsten Hens | Assistent, Hochschule Luzern, Switzerland |
Jordy Rillaerts | Three Essays in Empirical Finance | Markus Leippold | Senior Consultant Risk Advisory, Deloitte, Zurich, Switzerland |
Jan Toczynski | Essays in Empirical Finance | Christoph Basten | Postdoctoral Researcher, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland |
Isabelle Zheng | Climate Change, Biodiversity Losses and Financial Risks | Marc Chesney | Fellow, Council on Economic Policies, Zurich, Switzerland |
PhD Student | PhD Thesis | Supervisor | Next Employment |
Andrea Bergesio | Frictional costs in insurance | Cosimo Munari | Senior Risk Manager, Credit Suisse, Zürich, Switzerland |
Patrick Eugster | Forecasting with Technical and Sentiment Analysis | Thorsten Hens | Self-employed economist and president of "Renteninitiative", Winterthur, Switzerland |
Simon Hediger | New Methods for Testing, Prediction, and Estimation with Applications to Finance | Markus Leippold | Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Economics, University of Zurich, Switzerland |
Florian Heeb | Three Essays on the Impact of Sustainable Investing | Marc Chesney | First Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, MIT Sloan School of Management, Cambridge (MA), USA / Next Position: Assistant Professor, SAFE, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany |
Sean Hofland | New Approaches to Modelling Individual Decisions under Uncertainty | Helga Fehr | Data specialist, d-tail family office, Wollerau, Switzerland |
Michele Pelli | Essays on Unconventional Central Bank Policies | Michel Habib | Economist, Research Collaboration Unit, Central Bank of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland |
Alexander Smirnow | Risk Measures and their Applications in Quantitative Finance | Walter Farkas | Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Finance, University of Zurich, Switzerland |
Urban Ulrych | Applications of Statistical Learning in Quantitative Finance | Walter Farkas | Postdoctoral Researcher, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland |
PhD Student | PhD Thesis | Supervisor | Next Employment |
Marlon Azinovic | Essays on Computational Macro-Finance | Felix Kübler |
First Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Finance, University of Zurich, Switzerland Current Position (09/2024): Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA |
Olga Briukhova | Three Essays on the Consequences of Financial Stability Regulation | Stefano Battiston | Senior Consultant, Finyon AG, Zurich, Switzerland |
Marco Ceccarelli | Essays on Sustainable Finance | Alexander Wagner |
First position: Post-Doctoral Researcher, University of Maastricht, Netherlands Current placement: Assistant Professor, Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam, Netherlands |
Gianluca De Nard | Asset Return Prediction and Covariance Matrix Estimation for Portfolio Selection in Large Dimensions | Markus Leippold | Senior Quantitative Researcher, OLZ AG, Zurich, and Post-Doctoral Researcher, University of Zurich, Switzerland |
Dietmar Dorn | Corporate Market Timing and Short-Sale Constraints | Per Östberg | PwC, Valuation and Modelling, Zurich, Switzerland |
Gazi Kabas | Essays on Household Finance and Empirical Banking | Steven Ongena | Assistant Professor, Tilburg University, Netherlands |
Jonathan Krakow | Information Disclosure, Competition, and Sustainability in Retail Financial Markets | Marc Chesney | Consultant Risk Advisory - Sustainable Finance, Deloitte, Oslo, Norway |
Philipp Lentner | The effect of monetary policy on covered bonds | Kjell Nyborg | Assistant Professor, WU Vienna, Austria |
Mrinal Mishra | How Does Financial Intermediation Respond to Varied Shocks? | Steven Ongena |
First position: Post-Doctoral Researcher at Department of Finance, University of Zurich, Switzerland Current placement: Assistant Professor, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia |
Kuchulain O'Flynn | Essays on the Impact of Financial Markets on Traditional Banking | Steven Ongena | Senior Consultant, PwC, Zurich, Switzerland |
Yushi Peng | Applications of New Empirical IO in Banking and Real Estate Economics | Michel Habib |
First position: Post-Doctoral Researcher, London School of Economics, UK Current placement: Assistant Professor, Tilburg University, Tilburg, Netherlands |
Stefano Ramelli | Finance in the Climate Crisis: Preferences, Policies, and Prospects | Alexander Wagner | Assistant Professor, University St. Gallen, Switzerland |
Alan Roncoroni | Risk and opportunities in the context of the low-carbon transition: a financial network approach | Stefano Battiston | Consultant, Ernst&Young (EY), Zurich, Switzerland |
Felix Stang | Essays on Arbitrage Pricing Theory and Contagion in a Financial Network | Markus Leippold | Sanitas Health Insurance, Zurich, Switzerland |
PhD Student | PhD Thesis | Supervisor | Next Employment |
Andrada Bilan | Three Essays on the Consequences of Financial Market Frictions | Steven Ongena | Research Economist, Swiss National Bank, Bern, Switzerland |
Yunhao He | Essays on Factor Asset Pricing | Markus Leippold | Junior Quant Trader at IMC Trading, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
Lena Hörnlein | Financing the energy transition - The impact of a changing power sector on investor | Marc Chesney | Investment Analyst, InvestInvent AG, Zurich, Switzerland |
Alexandra Janssen | Expectations, Fear, and Returns in Currency Markets | Thorsten Hens | Ecofin Portfolio Solutions AG, Zurich, Switzerland |
Egor Maslov | Essays in Financial Integration, Firm Dynamics and Risk Sharing | Mathias Hoffmann | Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Economics, University of Zurich, Switzerland |
Ludovic Mathys | American-Type Exotic Options and Risk Management in Lévy-Driven Markets | Walter Farkas | Equity Derivatives Trader, UBS AG, Zurich, Switzerland |
Luca Mazzone | Leverage, Business Cycles and Human Capital Accumulation | Felix Kübler | Economist in the EP Program, International Monetary Fund, Washington, USA / Assistant Professor at CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic |
Chiara Perillo | A macro-financial network perspective to policy analysis | Stefano Battiston | Research Economist, European Central Bank, Frankfurt, Germany |
Michael Schnetzer | Essays on Institutional Asset Management | Thorsten Hens | Senior Research Analyst, Vita Sammelstiftung, Zurich, Switzerland |
Steven Schärer | Three Essays on Financial Engineering | Markus Leippold | Vice President Quant Strats, Credit Suisse, Zürich, Switzerland |
Hanlin Yang | Learning and Systematic Investing | Markus Leippold | Delta One Strats, China International Capital Corporation, Hong Kong |
PhD Student | PhD Thesis | Supervisor | Next Employment |
Kathrin DeGreiff | Essays on the Link of Climate Change and the Banking Sector | Jean-Charles Rochet | Credit Suisse, Zurich, Switzerland |
Fulvia Fringuellotti | Three Essays on Bank Lending | Steven Ongena | Federal Reserve Bank, New York, USA |
Runjie (Roger) Geng | Essays in Equilibrium Asset Pricing | Felix Kübler | Assistant Professor in Finance of ICEF at Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia |
Regina Hammerschmid | Essays on the Pricing of Commodity and Currency Returns | Thorsten Hens | Quantitative Analyst, Researcher and Risk Specialist, UBS, Switzerland |
Lilia Mukhlynina | Essays on Valuation, Investments, and Asset Pricing | Kjell Nyborg | Post-Doctoral Researcher, DBF, Switzerland |
Vladimir Petrov | Essays on Directional-Change Intrinsic Time | Stefano Battiston | Strategic Project Manager, Lykke, Switzerland |
Adriano Tosi | Essays in Systematic Asset Pricing | Steven Ongena | Morgan Stanley, QIS, London, UK |
Carlos Vargas | Essays in Sustainable Finance | Marc Chesney | Assistant Professor, EGADE Business School, Mexico |
PhD Student | PhD Thesis | Supervisor | Next Employment |
Simone Bernardi | Three Essays on Regulatory, Market, and Estimation Risk | Markus Leippold | Associate Director, UBS, Switzerland |
Dominika Kryczka | Recursive Equilibria in Non-Optimal Financial Economies | Felix Kübler | European Central Bank (ECB), Germany |
Ferdinand Langnickel | Essays in Behavioral Finance | Thorsten Hens | Senior Data Scientist, BCG GAMMA, Switzerland |
Inke Nyborg | Wie Banknoten Bargeld wurden. Geld und Notenbanken in der Schweiz im langen 19. Jahrhundert | Urs Birchler | DBF, UZH, Switzerland |
Thomas Richter | Trading, Liquidity and Regulation in Sovereign Bond Markets | Per Östberg | UBS, Quantitative Risk Specialist, Switzerland |
Roger Rüegg | Essays on Active Investing | Markus Leippold | Portfolio Manager, ZKB, Switzerland |
Anastasiia Sokko | Essays in Behavioural Financial Markets and Asset Pricing | Thorsten Hens | Iron Ore Analyst/Trader, Glencore, Switzerland |
PhD Student | PhD Thesis | Supervisor | Next Employment |
Amelie Brune | Three Essays on Economic Crises | Thorsten Hens | Swiss National Bank, Switzerland |
Andrin Bögli | Essays on the Economics of Deception and Debt | Alexander Wagner | Senior Consultant, Oliver Wyman, Switzerland |
Felix Fattinger | The Pricing of Uncertain Information: From the Lab, to Derivatives Markets, to State-contingent Sovereign Debt | Marc Chesney | Assistant Professor, WU Vienna and the VGSF, Austria |
Lucas Marc Fuhrer | Three Essays on Money and Liquidity | Kjell Nyborg | SNB, Senior Economist, Switzerland |
Nina Gotthelf | Three Essays on Media Content and Financial Markets | Thorsten Hens | Investment Strategist, Swiss Re, Switzerland |
René Hegglin | Three Essays on Empirical Banking | Urs Birchler | DBF Managing Director, Head of Administration, Zurich, Switzerland |
Andreas Ita | Essays in Corporate Finance | Alexander Wagner | Executive Director, UBS AG, Switzerland |
Elisabeth Megally | Three Essays on Managerial Compensation | Michel Habib | |
Ivan Petzev | Essays in Asset Pricing and Corporate Finance | Alexander Wagner | Swiss Rock Asset Management AG, Switzerland |
Cornelia Rösler | Three Essays on the Interbank Market | Kjell Nyborg | Accenture, Switzerland |
Peter Schmidt | Essays on Financial Market Efficiency | Alexander Wagner | Lecturer, University of Bern, Switzerland |
Jiri Woschitz | Three Essays on Monetary Policy and Financial Markets | Kjell Nyborg | Associate Professor at the Finance Department, BI Norwegian Business School, Norway |
Quan Zhang | Limits of Arbitrage and Collateral Constraints | Felix Kübler | Tenure-track Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Lancaster University, UK |
PhD Student | PhD Thesis | Supervisor | Next Employment |
Sabine Elmiger | On the Robustness of Consumption-Based Asset Pricing | Thorsten Hens | DBF, UZH, Switzerland |
Diana Festl-Pell | Essays on Banking, Governance and Sustainability | Urs Birchler | Professor of Finance & Accounting, Karlshochschule International University, Germany |
Diego Ostinelli | Financial markets, Innovation, and Acquisitions | Michel Habib | Prop Trading Desk, Banca IMI, Switzerland |
Jakub Rojček | Market Quality and Price Impact of High-Frequency Trading and its Regulation | Thorsten Hens | LGT Capital Partners, Zurich, Switzerland |
Bruno Troja | Essays on Optimal Investments in the Mitigation of Global Warming | Marc Chesney | Financial Controller/Business Analyst at II-VI Laser Enterprise, Zurich, Switzerland |
Nikola Vasiljevic | Option Pricing and Market Risk Management in the Presence of Jump Risk | Markus Leippold | Credit Suisse, Zurich, Switzerland |
PhD Student | PhD Thesis | Supervisor | Next Employment |
Meike Bradbury | Improved Investment Advice Through Risk Simulation | Thorsten Hens | Credit Suisse, Switzerland |
Michele Doronzo | Empirical Essays on Risky Assets, Asset Allocation and Emission Certificates | Marc Paolella | Swiss Re Asset Management, Switzerland |
Manish Gupta | Three Essays in Real Estate and Entrepreneurial Finance | Thorsten Hens | Assistant Professor in Finance, Nottingham University Business School, UK |
Meriton Ibraimi | Essays on Arbitrage Pricing Theory and Systemic Risk Modeling | Markus Leippold | Ernst & Young, Switzerland |
Markus Ludwig | Three Essays on Option Implied Information | Markus Leippold | Scout24, Munich, Germany |
Anca Claudia Pana | Contributions to the Economics of Climate Change Mitigation | Marc Chesney | PostDoc, Harvard, Department of Environmental Economics and Public Policy, USA |
Falko Paetzold | Three Essays on Sustainable Investing in Private Wealth Management | Marc Chesney | CSP, Department of Banking and Finance, Switzerland |
Remo Stössel | Risk Assessment and Risk Communication in Theory and Practice | Thorsten Hens | |
Lujing Su | Three Essays on Market Frictions | Markus Leippold | Senior Analyst, Deutsche Bank, Germany |
Boris Wälchli | Essays on Nonaffine Option Pricing and Random Forests in the Fields of Finance | Walter Farkas | PostDoc, DBF, Switzerland |
PhD Student | PhD Thesis | Supervisor | Next Employment |
Fabian Ackermann | Three Essays on the Efficiency of Selected Financial Markets | Karl Schmedders | Head of Quant Portfolio Management, Zürcher Kantonalbank, Switzerland |
Chris Bardgett | Volatility and correlation modelling for equity indices | Markus Leippold | Quantitative Analyst, UBS, London, UK |
Three Essays in Asset Pricing | Henrik Hasseltoft | ||
Nilufer Caliskan | Essays in Asset Pricing Anomalies | Thorsten Hens | Kieger AG, Director of Research and Portfolio Construction, Switzerland |
Ethem Güney | Essays in Banking and Finance | Jean-Charles Rochet | Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey, Turkey |
Robert Huitema | Essays in Quantitative Finance | Walter Farkas | UBS, Associate Director, Switzerland |
Jochen Krause | Mixture Models in Financial Risk Modeling | Marc Paolella | PostDoc, DBF, Switzerland |
Dörte Kreher | Strict Local Martingales, Random Times and Non-Standard Changes of Probability Measure in Financial Mathematics | Ashkan Nikeghbali | PostDoc, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany / Assistant Professor, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany |
Ombretta Marchiodi | Essays on Real Options, R & D, Empirical Applications to the Pharmaceutical Industry | Marc Chesney | Novartis, Switzerland |
Felix Matthys | Three Essays in Quantitative Finance | Markus Leippold | Assistant Professor at ITAM, Mexico |
Tatjana Puhan | Essays in Finance | Marc Chesney | Swiss Life Asset Management, Switzerland |
Kristoph Steikert | The Weighted Nadaraya-Watson Estimator: Strong Consistency Results, Rates of Convergence, and a Local Bootstrap Procedure to Select the Bandwidth | Felix Kübler | Quantitative Analyst, Credit Suisse, Switzerland |
Suzanne Ziegler | Bankinsolvenz und Einlegerschutz - Analyse und Beurteilung der Entwicklung in der Schweiz | Urs Birchler | Professor Banking & Finance, ZHAW, Switzerland |
PhD Student | PhD Thesis | Supervisor | Next Employment |
Erdinc Akyildirim | Essays in Quantitative Finance | Walter Farkas | Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey |
Elise Gourier | Affine and Quadratic Models for Volatility and Interest Rates Markets | Markus Leippold | Associate Professor in Finance, ESSEC Business School, Paris, France |
Pawel Polak | Forecasting Financial Returns Under Non-Elliptical Distributions with Applications to Portfolio Allocation and Risk Management | Marc Paolella | Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Stony Brook University, USA |
Nikolay Ryabkov | Three Essays on Empirical Asset Pricing and Systematic Ambiguity | Alexandre Ziegler | OMERS Capital Markets, Switzerland |
Zexi Wang | Three Essays on Corporate Cash Policy and Financial Markets | Kjell Nyborg | University of Bern, Switzerland |
PhD Student | PhD Thesis | Supervisor | Next Employment |
Mario Häfeli | Banking regulation: liquidity measures, capital requirements and deposit insurance | Paolo Vanini | Highschool Teacher, Zurich, Switzerland |
Benjamin Jonen | Essays on Asset Pricing and Portfolio Choice | Felix Kübler | Swiss Life Asset Management, Zurich, Switzerland |
Matthias Jüttner | Systemic Relevance in Financial Markets and Manufacturing Networks | Paolo Vanini | Swiss National Bank, Switzerland |
Mustafa Karaman | Essays in Econometrics of Financial Asset Pricing Models | Loriano Mancini | UBS, Zurich, Switzerland |
Gabriel Neukomm | Three essays on capital structure and structured finance | Alexander Wagner | PricewaterhouseCoopers, Zurich, Switzerland |
Maria Putintseva | Three Essays on Forecasting and Information Acquisition in Finance | Marc Paolella | Nationale Suisse, Basel, Switzerland |
Jacob Stromberg | Essays on the Pricing and Modeling of Derivatives and Risk-Taking Incentives | Marc Chesney | UBS, Zurich, Switzerland |
PhD Student | PhD Thesis | Supervisor | Next Employment |
Marc Arnold | Essays on Credit Risk | Alexander Wagner | Professor, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland |
Jan Wrampelmeyer | Ambiguity, Illiquidity, and Hedge Funds: An Analysis of Recent Developments and Current Research Topics in Post-Crisis Financial Markets | Loriano Mancini | University of St. Gallen, Switzerland / Associate Professor of Finance at VU Amsterdam, Netherlands |
PhD Student | PhD Thesis | Supervisor | Next Employment |
Remo Crameri | Three essays inferring prospective and retrospective information based on options trading activities and a new theoretical approach on multivariate subordination of Lévy processes | Marc Chesney | UBS AG, Switzerland |
Evgeny Plaksen | Empire Building in Firms Going Public: How Early Do We Discover the Problem |
Michel Habib | McKinsey, Basel, Switzerland |
Urs Schweri | Life-Cycles of Firms | Thorsten Hens | Schulleitung Schneisingen, Switzerland |
Songtao Wang | Optimal Capital Structure and Yield Spreads under Liquidity Risk | Rajna Gibson | Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China |
PhD Student | PhD Thesis | Supervisor | Next Employment |
Matteo Bonato | Multivariate volatility modeling and forecasting with stable GARCH and Wishart Autoregressive models | Marc Paolella | UBS, Zurich, Switzerland |
Gorazd Brumen | The Effects of Networks and Informations on Asset Prices | Rajna Gibson | Morgan Stanley Risk Management Group, London, UK |
Mihnea Constantinescu | Risk and return in the Swiss property market | Thorsten Hens | Bank of Lithuania, Lithuania |
Luca Taschini | An Empirical and Theoretical Study on Emission Permits | Marc Chesney | London School of Economics, UK / Professor and Chair of Climate Change Finance, University of Edinburgh Business School, UK |
PhD Student | PhD Thesis | Supervisor | Next Employment |
Ganna Reshetar | Assessing and Managing Operational Risk with a Special Emphasis on Terrorism Risk |
Marc Chesney | Deloitte, Zurich, Switzerland |
Bogdan Stacescu | Three Essays on Payout Policy | Michel Habib | Associate Professor, BI Norwegian Business School, Oslo, Norway |
PhD Student | PhD Thesis | Supervisor | Next Employment |
Kremena Bachmann-Damianova | Corporate Financial Reporting and Disclosure - A Behavioral Finance Perspective | Thorsten Hens | DBF, UZH, Switzerland / Professor in Wealth Management, ZHAW School of Management and Law, Switzerland |
Benoit Metayer | Non - Standard Issues in Credit Risk Management | Rajna Gibson | Barclays Wealth, London, UK |
Florian Peters | Essays in Corporate Finance | Michel Habib | Associate Professor of finance, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands |
Martin Vlcek | Individual Trading Behavior: The Disposition Effect | Thorsten Hens | Banque Cantonale Vaudoise, Switzerland |
PhD Student | PhD Thesis | Supervisor | Next Employment |
Carsten Murawski | Essays in Financial Economics | Rajna Gibson | Professor at the University of Melbourne, Australia |
Rina Rosenblatt- Wisch | Optimal Growth under Loss Aversion | Thorsten Hens | Swiss National Bank, Switzerland |