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Centre for Digital Finance

Our people

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

Dr Larisa Yarovaya

Associate Professor of Finance

Research interests

  • Cryptocurrencies 
  • Financial Contagion
  • Fintech

Accepting applications from PhD students

Professor Mahesan Niranjan

ISIS Chair

Dr Manuel Nunes

Lecturer in Banking and Finance

Research interests

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) and eXplainable AI in Financial Markets
  • Large Language Models (LLMs) in Finance
  • Reinforcement Learning for Portfolio Management

Accepting applications from PhD students

Dr Markus Brede

Associate Professor

Dr Martin Enilov PhD, MSc, BSc, FHEA, PGCert

Lecturer in Banking and Finance

Research interests

  •     Applied Macroeconomics
  •     Mixed-Frequency  Econometrics
  •     Tourism Economics

Accepting applications from PhD students

Dr Mohamed Bakoush PhD, CFA, FRM, MCSI, FHEA

Lecturer in Finance

Research interests

  • Financial Stability
  • Financial Innovation & Fintech
  • Sustainable Finance & Climate Risk

Accepting applications from PhD students

Professor Nicky Marsh

PROFESSOR

Research interests

  • Intersections between culture and economics
  • Cultural representations of risk, money, finance, markets
  • Gender, feminism and the economy 

Dr Panayiotis Papakyriakou

Lecturer in Finance

Research interests

  • Empirical Corporate Finance
  • Empirical Asset Pricing
  • Behavioural Finance

Accepting applications from PhD students

Dr Partha Roy

Lecturer in Banking and Finance

Research interests

  • Corporate Finance
  • Institutional Investors
  • ESG

Accepting applications from PhD students

Professor Patrick Doncaster

Professor of Ecology

Research interests

  • Population ecology 
  • Conservation management of forest and freshwater lake ecosystems
  • Conservation technology and tools for data analysis