About Me

Daniel Ruf

Welcome to my homepage! I am Assistant Professor of Real Estate Economics and Finance at the Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge. 

Before joining the Department of Land Economy in October 2023, I was Professor (W1) of Real Estate Finance (non-tenure track) at the Goethe University Frankfurt.  I received my Ph.D. in Finance and Economics from the University of St.Gallen (HSG), Switzerland in 2018. 

My research interests are Real Estate Finance, Commercial Real Estate, and Spatial Econometrics. 

Updates

• September 2025: I am the new Course Director for the postgraduate MPhil in Real Estate Finance. Before, I served as the Deputy Course Director for the PhD in Land Economy/Course Director for the MPhil in Land Economy Research/Land Economy by Thesis.

• We will present our paper on "Credit Cycles in Tokenized Real Estate Markets" in Milan on September 25-26, 2025 at the conference on The Future of Payments: CBDC, Digital Assets and Digital Capital Markets. 

• April 2024: I am Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance (CERF)  Fellow 2024 to 2026, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.

• In October 2023, I started as Assistant Professor in Real Estate Economics and Finance at the University of Cambridge, Department of Land Economy.