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I am an Associate Professor at Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School University College Dublin
Research Associate at the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA) in the Model Uncertainty and Macro-Econometrics Program
Academic Director of Master in Quantitative Finance at University College Dublin (overview video)
Editorial Board Member of Forecasting
Associate Editor of the International Journal of Finance and Economics
Associate Editor of the European Journal of Finance
Special Issue Editor "New Frontiers in Forecasting the Business Cycle and Financial Markets" (The editorial article)
Editor of the Special Issue of Digital Finance (The editorial article)
CA🚨 I have been awarded the STEM Champion prize at the 2024 Diversity in Tech Awards
🚨 I am among the recipients of the Best Paper on Gender, Diversity, & Entrepreneurship Kauffman Award 2022 of the Annual Academy of Management Conference
My research interests include Econometrics, Applied Econometrics, Classical and Bayesian Econometrics, Time-Series Analysis, Forecasting, Macroeconomics, Applied Macroeconomics, Monetary Policy, DSGE Modeling, and Applied Finance.
🤩 TEACHING NEWS:
Dean’s List of Outstanding Teachers Award at University College Dublin, College of Business for course taught during 2023/2024
Digital and Facilitator Badges in Universal Design for Teaching Learning 2023
🚨See my Chapter Teaching Courses Online: Practical Implications from an International University Teachers’ Survey published in the book Synchronous and Asynchronous Approaches to Teaching - Higher Education Lessons in Post-Pandemic Times, edited by Payal Kumar and Jacob Eisenberg for Palgrave MacMillan.
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Address: University College Dublin - Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, Dublin
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UCD Women in STEM LinkedIN page
You can find my CV and detailed information about my research and teaching experience in the corresponding sections.
Recent/Upcoming Events
December 14 - 16, 2024: Invited Speaker at the CFE2024, King's College, London
September 2024: Invited Professor at the Central Bank of Ireland
August 26 - 30 2024: Invited Speaker at the EEA-ESEM 2024, Erasmus University Rotterdam
June 25-27 2024: Invited Speaker at the IAAE2024 , Thessaloniki
June 24 2024: Invited Speaker at the ILO Workshop on Reducing Inequality to Promote Social Justice, ILO Geneve
June 17-18 2024: Invited Discussant at the IWH Workshop on Forecasting in Times of Structural Change and Uncertainty, IWH
June 3-4 2024: Invited Professor at the Training School Advances in Data Science and AI for Finance: Bridging Academia and Industry, University of Calabria
March 21-22 2024: Invited Speaker at the SNDE2024, University of Padua
December 16-18 2023: Invited Speaker at the CFE2023, HTW Berlin, University of Applied Science
November 23 - 24 2023: Keynote Speaker at the 16th UNITO-Collegio Carlo Alberto PhD Workshop in Economics
August 28 - September 1: Invited Speaker at the EEA-ESEM at the Barcelona School of Economics
July 3 - 6 2023: Invited Speaker at the 29th International Conference Computing in Economics and Finance at the Université Côte d'Azur
June 29 - 30 2023: Invited Speaker at the 4th Financial Economics Meeting at the EDC Paris Business School
May 26 - 28 2023: Invited Speaker at the Tenth Italian Congress of Econometrics and Empirical Economics at the University of Cagliari
April 11 2023: Invited Speaker at the Webinar in Gender and Family Economics
March 28 2023: Invited Speaker at the International Monetary Fund, Research
March 16 - 17 2023: Invited Speaker at the SNDE 2023 at the Central Florida University
January 9 2023: Invited Speaker at the SGH Warsaw School of Economics in the Econometrics seminar series
January 2023: Visiting Professor at the SGH Warsaw School of Economics in the PhD course of Macroeconometrics and Time Series
17-19 December 2022: Invited Speaker at the CFE2022
15 - 16 September 2022: Invited Speaker at the BWES 2022 at University of Bergamo
22 - 26 August 2022: Invited Speaker at the EEA-ESEM 2022 at Bocconi University
21 - 24 June 2022: Invited Speaker at the IAAE 2022 at King's College London
16 - 17 May 2022: Invited Speaker at the Diversity challenges and opportunities in FinTech
7 April 2022: Invited Speaker at the Unibz Blockchain Evening (SLIDES)
10 - 11 March, 2022: Invited Speaker at the virtual SNDE 2022
20 January, 2022: Invited Speaker at the Virtual Seminar at Durham University - Business School
18 - 20 December 2021: Invited Speaker at the CFE 2021
15 - 16 October 2021: Invited Speaker at NBER-NSF Time Series Conference 2021
27 - 30 September 2021: Invited Speaker at MATLAB Computational Finance Conference 2021
17 - 18 September, 2021: Invited Speaker at Workshop on Large Data, Econometrics, and Forecasting
6 - 7 August 2021 : Invited Speaker at NBER-NSF SBIES Conference 2021
1 July 2021: Invited Speaker at the Society of Economic Dynamics 2021
26 June 2021: Invited Speaker at the Armernian Economic Association Annual Meeting 2021
22 June 2021: Invited Speaker at the IAAE 2021
16 June 2021: Invited Speaker at the CEF 2021
14 June 2021: Seminar at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice
10 - 13 June 2021: Invited Speaker at 2021 North American Summer Meeting of the Econometrics Society
11 June 2021: Invited Speaker at UCD College of Business Research Symposium 2021
9 - 10 June 2021: Invited Speaker at V International Seminar on Statistics with R
20 May 2021: Seminar at Central Bank of Ireland
13 May 2021: Seminar at Bank of Greece Research Seminar Series
6 - 7 May 2021: Invited Speaker at Irish Economic Association
8 - 9 April 2021: Invited Speaker at Applied Time Series FED St Louis
17 February 2021: Invite Guest Professor Pomona College, US
21 - 23 January 2021: Invited Speaker at ICEEE 2021, Cagliari