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Centre for Digital Finance

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Learn about our academic experts, from their research interests to their contact details.

Dr Renatas Kizys

Associate Professor in Finance

Research interests

  • Asset pricing
  • Cryptocurrencies
  • Energy economics and finance

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Renatas

Email: R.Kizys@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 8612

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Dr Sasan Barak

Lecturer in Business Analytics

Research interests

  • Financial Machine Learning (including Portfolio Optimisation, Algorithmic Trading)
  • Forecasting (Model Selection, Meta-Learning, Deep Learning)
  • Statistical and Machine Learning Algorithms in Analytics

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Sasan

Email: S.Barak@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 4465

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Mr Shuyue Li

Connect with Shuyue

Email: sl6m18@soton.ac.uk

Dr Simon Troup

Principal Enterprise Fellow

Research interests

  • data wrangling, data science and data products
  • tech product strategy and business models
  • fintech unbundling and platforms
Connect with Simon

Email: simon.troup@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 2671

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Professor Simon Wolfe

Professor in Banking and Finance

Research interests

  • Financial regulations
  • Financial stability
  • Depositor protection schemes

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Simon

Email: ssjw@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 3118

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Dr Suhee Kim

Lecturer in Banking and Finance

Research interests

  • Empirical corporate finance
  • Law and finance
  • Corporate governance

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Suhee

Email: S.Kim@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 2380595620

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Professor Tahir Nisar

Professor

Research interests

  • Crowdfunding
  • AI Automation
  • Social Media

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Tahir

Email: T.M.Nisar@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 3427

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Professor Tapas Mishra

Head of Department Banking and Finance

Research interests

  • Long memory; Green finance and corporate culture; Mergers and Acquisition, Stochastic economic growth; Macroprudential policy and stress testing; Environmental and demographic volatility; Cryptocurrency modelling; Climate finance, Small Business Economics, and Innovation-diffusion modelling.
  • Demography-growth-environmental interdependence
  • Spatio-temporal models

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Tapas

Email: T.K.Mishra@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 1377

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Professor Thanassis Tiropanis

Professor

Research interests

  • Decentralised information systems and infrastructures
  • Data (and Web) observatories
  • Bias in datasets and incassible algorithms

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Thanassis

Email: t.tiropanis@southampton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 9109

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Dr Tiejun Ma

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Financial Risk Modelling
  • Investors Behaviour Modelling
  • Fintech
Connect with Tiejun

Email: tiejun.ma@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 8976