Welcome to my website!

Who am I?

That's a question philosophers have wrestled with for millennia, though none of them had to answer it in a personal website. I am a father (my most important and least peer-reviewed role), a tech enthusiast who probably owns more gadgets than is strictly necessary, an occasional runner (emphasis on occasional), a music lover, and an amateur photographer who firmly believes that the best camera is the one you remembered to charge. 

Turning to my professional identity, I am a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Finance at the department of Finance and Accounting of the University of Surrey. I am Editor of the International Journal of Banking, Accounting and Finance, Associate Editor of the Decisions in Economics and Finance journal, and have served as Guest Editor for issues appearing in the Annals of Operations Research, and the Journal of Forecasting.     

What is my research about?

My research lies in the intersection of management science, decision analysis and finance, and you can find it in outlets such as the European Journal of Operational Research, Omega, the British Journal of Management, and the Journal of Business Ethics.

My expertise centres on quantitative modelling of decision-making, including areas such as decision analysis and performance benchmarking. I work with a range of Operations Research and Artificial Intelligence methods, which lend themselves to a variety of practical contexts in finance and banking — from internal bank modelling and credit scoring to sustainability benchmarking.

But decision-making is not purely rational. As Keynes recognised, it is susceptible to "animal spirits". My empirical research explores how socio-cultural traits — the kind that shape how groups collectively think and behave — influence corporate outcomes such as risk-taking, default propensity, use of collateral, and lending corruption.