CV

Education

• 2006 Ph.D. in Economics, Ghent University 

  • Title: The Comovement of Asset Returns 

  • Supervisors: Jan Annaert and Lieven Baele

• 2000-2001 Master in Banking and Finance, Ghent University, Great Distinction 

  • Dissertation: Country versus Sector Effects in Emerging Markets Portfolios: Analysis and Development of Indicators

• 1995-1999 BA Applied Economic Sciences, Major in Finance, Ghent University, Great Distinction 

  • Dissertation: The Econometrics of Financial Markets

Working Experience

• Associate professor of Finance at the Department of Economics, Ghent University, October 2016 – Present.

• Assistant professor of Finance at the Department of Financial Economics, Ghent University, October 2013 – September 2016.

• Assistant professor of Finance at the Department of Finance, University College Ghent, February 2011 – September 2013.

• Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Finance, University College Ghent, January 2007 – January 2011.

• Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Financial Economics, Ghent University, September 2006 – December 2006.

• Internship, Research Department, National Bank of Belgium, October 2005 – March 2006, 

  • Title Project: "The time variation in stock-bond correlations: what are the economic driving forces".

• Research and Teaching Assistant at the Department of Financial Economics, Ghent University, October 1999 – September 2005, supporting the following courses: Econometrics I, Econometrics II and Financial Econometrics.

Awards and Grants

• Chair Keytrade Bank-Ghent University for project “The wealth of Belgian people”, 2023-2025.

• FWO/SBO Grant for research project “Towards efficient pillar II and III pension decisions in Belgium: Product innovations, customized goal-based pension planning and nudging”, 2020-2023

• NBB Grant for research project “Climate change concerns and the performance of green versus brown stocks”, 2020.

• NBB Grant for research project “Using transaction data to examine the drivers of investment behavior for different groups of investors”.

• BOF (Special Research Fund) PhD Grant/Doctoral Scholarship 2015-2019.

• Best Teacher Award 2014, 2015, awarded by Stuveco, the student council of the Faculty of Economics and Business.

• INQUIRE Europe Grant, October 2012, for "Flights to Safety", with Geert Bekaert and Lieven Baele.

• Grant of National Bank of Belgium for research project on Endogenous Financial Risk, 2011-2012, with Lieven Baele and Geert Bekaert.

• ECFIN/C/2007/018 European Commission, Economic and Financial Affairs, August 2007, Study on “Portfolio diversification and evidence of changes in international ownership of assets”, with Lieven Baele.

• Award for Best Dissertation in International Finance, 2006, Sponsored by The Indiana University (IU), Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) and the Financial Management Association International, Title Dissertation: ‘The Comovement of Asset Returns’.

• INQUIRE Europe Grant, October 2006, for "The Determinants of Stock-Bond Correlations", with Geert Bekaert and Lieven Baele.

• Voseko-prize for best undergraduate thesis at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University , 1999. Title: 'The Econometric of Financial Markets'.

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