2025 - present: Director of the Center for Accounting, Auditing, and Control, Nyenrode Business Universiteit, Breukelen & Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2025 - present: Academic Director M.Sc. in Accountancy, Nyenrode Business Universiteit, Breukelen & Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2024 - present: Director of the Center for Corporate Reporting, Finance, and Tax, Nyenrode Business Universiteit, Breukelen & Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2022 - present: Full Professor of Corporate Reporting, Nyenrode Business Universiteit, Breukelen & Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2021 - 2024: Academic Director of Accounting, Auditing & Control, Erasmus School of Economics, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2019 – present: Associate Professor of Financial Accounting, Erasmus School of Economics, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2020 - present: Visiting Professor, Anton de Kom University, Paramaribo, Suriname
2018 – present: Visiting Professor, WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management, Vallendar, Germany
2014 – present: Member ERIM Research Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2014 – 2019: Assistant Professor of Financial Accounting, Erasmus School of Economics, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2012 - 2017: Visiting Professor, ESSCA Graduate School of Management, Angers, France
2012 – 2014: Assistant Professor of Financial Accounting, HEC Paris, France
2011 - 2012: Visiting Research Scholar in Accounting, University of Chicago's Booth School of Business, United States
2009 - 2010: Visiting Research Scholar in Accounting, HEC Paris, France
2007 – 2012: Research Associate, Chair of Finance and Capital Markets, Trier University, Germany
2025 - 2026: New Board Programme '36, Nyenrode Business Universiteit, Breukelen & Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2007 – 2012: Doctor rerum politicarum (Ph.D. equivalent), summa cum laude, Trier University, Trier, Germany
2011 – 2012: Visiting scholar, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA
2009 – 2010: Visiting scholar, HEC Paris, Paris, France
2002 – 2006 : Dipl. Math.-oec. (M.Sc. equivalent in Mathematics and Finance), Trier University, Trier, Germany
Disclosure regulation; executive compensation; corporate governance; boards; succession planning
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Chair Programme Committee FT-M.Sc. in Business Administration (2024-), Nyenrode Business Universiteit
Chair Programme Committee M.Sc. in Controlling (2024-), Nyenrode Business Universiteit
Member Programme Committee Accountancy (2024-), Nyenrode Business Universiteit
Member, then Chair, Programme Committee Economics and Business Economics (2018-), Erasmus School of Economics
Member of the scientific committee of the European Accounting Association (2017-2019, 2021-2023, 2024-2026)
Journal referee for multiple accounting, business, management, and finance journals.
Conference referee for multiple international accounting and finance conferences.
Best Paper Award of the American Accounting Association in 2022 for “Financial Market Deregulation”
Best Paper Award of the CCGAR Research Camp on Auditing and Accounting in 2019 for “Returning CEOs”
Best Paper Award of the American Accounting Association in 2013 for “Evidence on the Impact of Adopting English as an External Reporting Language on Foreign Investment, Liquidity, and Analyst Following“
German Research Foundation Scholarship for dissertation project “Corporate Risk Management in Europe”; Trier University; 2010–2012 (applicant: PhD supervisor Prof. Dr. Axel Adam-Mueller)
Marie Curie Research Training Network Scholarship (European Commission’s 6th Framework Marie Curie); fellow of the INTACCT Research Network; HEC Paris; 2009/2010
Accounting and Financial Analysis, Advanced Econometrics, Advanced Research Course in Accountancy, Advanced Finance and Accounting, Corporate Governance and Sustainability, Financial Accounting Research, Financial Econometrics, Intermediate Accounting, supervision of Master's and Bachelor's theses
Capital Market Theory tutorials, Financial Accounting and Reporting, Financial Statement Analysis, International Accounting, Introduction to Econometrics, Mathematics for Economists, Principles of Finance, The International Financial Crisis