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Department of Finance

Graduates

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.

2024

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

2023

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

2022

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

2021

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

2020

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

2019

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

2018

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

2017

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

2016

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

2015

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

2014

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

2013

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

2012

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

2011

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

2010

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

2009

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

2008

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

2007

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

2006

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

Weiterführende Informationen

The Department of Finance (DF) at the University of Zurich is one of the leading finance departments in Europe, located in Switzerland’s main financial center.

Our core research areas are Asset Pricing, Corporate Governance, Financial Intermediation, Qunatitative Finance, Sustainable Finance, and AI in Finance.

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