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'.
For more details, see my full CV below.