Curriculum Vitae

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Professor of International Finance, Tilburg University, November 2019 - Now

Associate Professor of Finance, Tilburg University, July 2009 - October 2019.

Assistant Professor of Finance, Tilburg University, September 2004 – June 2009.

Guest Professor Vlerick Business School (2011-now), Solvay Business School (2013-now)

Postdoctoral Researcher, Ghent University, July 2003 – August 2004.

Doctoral Researcher, Department of Financial Economics, Ghent University, September 1998 – November 2002.

EDUCATION

2003 Ph.D. in Economics, Ghent University.

Thesis Title: Essays in International Finance.

Supervisors: Geert Bekaert and Rudi Vander Vennet.

1998 Master in Financial Management (magna cum laude), Vlerick Business School.

1997 Master in Business (Major: Quantitative Economics) (magna cum laude), Antwerp U. (UFSIA).


AWARDS AND GRANTS

  • National Bank of Belgium Grant for ‘Measuring Inflation Risk Premia’ (2018, with Koen Inghelbrecht)

  • Grant by Tilburg Alumni Fund, 2017, for “Flights-to-Safety at High Frequency” (with Frank de Jong and Zilong Niu)

  • Bank of Turkey's Research Awards 2015, Third Price, for “Of Religion and Redemption: Evidence from Default on Islamic Loans”, with Moazzam Farooq and Steven Ongena.

  • INQUIRE Europe grant 2013, for "Market Integration in CEE Equity markets", with Geert Bekaert and Larissa Schaeffer.

  • INQUIRE Europe grant, 2012, for "Flights-to-Safety", with Geert Bekaert, Koen Inghelbrecht, and Min Wei.

  • National Bank of Belgium Grant, 2011, for “Flights to Safety”, in preparation of conference on “Endogenous Risks”.

  • European Commission Grant for updating/presenting ‘Time-Varying Integration and International Diversification Strategies’ at the EMU@10 conference celebrating the 10th anniversary of the introduction the euro.

  • INQUIRE Europe grant, October 2006, for "The Determinants of Stock-Bond Correlations", with Geert Bekaert and Koen Inghelbrecht.

  • European Commission project (Sixth Framework), ‘Financial Integration in Europe and the Propagation of Shocks’, Consortium with Ghent University, DIW Berlin, Kiel Institute for World Economics, and NIESR.

  • Marie-Curie Postdoctoral Grant, 2006-2007.

  • 2003 William Davidson Institute Research Grant, to work on “Equity Market Integration, and Equity Market Development in Central and Eastern Europe,” with Geert Bekaert and Koen Schoors.

  • Winner of the 2003 Award of the “Vereniging voor Economie” (Flemish Economic Association) for best paper “Volatility Spillover Effects in European Equity Markets” by author under the age of 35.

  • Traineeship, Capital Markets and Financial Structures Division, European Central Bank, September – November 2001.

  • Marie Curie Fellowship, Center for Economic Research (CentER), Tilburg University (February-May 2001, September-October 2002).


PhD STUDENTS


Past students: Koen Inghelbrecht (June 2006, now at Ghent University), Crina Pungulescu (March 2009, now at Toulouse Business School), Moazzam Farooq (September 2011, now at State Bank of Pakistan), Juan-Miguel Londoño (December 2011, now at Federal Reserve Board), Valerie De Bruyckere (May 2013, now at European Banking Association in London), Larissa Schäfer (2015, now at Frankfurt School of Finance & Management), Frederiek Van Holle (2017, now at Degroof Petercam), Zilong Niu (with Frank de Jong, now at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics), Matjaz Maletic (with Bertrand Melenberg, now at Slovenian Central Bank), Rebwar Taha (together with Ronald Russo)


Current students: Tomas Jankauskas (with Joost Driessen), Alexander Mueller; Jan Paulick (both together with Ron Berndsen), Giovanni Trebbi (together with Frank de Jong).