Senior Fellow
St Gallen Collegium
University of St. Gallen
Associate Professor (Universitair hoofddocent),
School of Business and Economics, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Fellow at Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Visiting Researcher
De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
10/2016 - 01/2020
PhD in Finance, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, 2015.
Diplom (MSc equiv.) in Mathematics, University of Münster, Germany, 2010.
Visiting Scholar, Stern School of Business, New York University, USA, 07/2014-06/2015.
Erasmus Scholarship, Complutense University Madrid, Spain, 09/2007-04/2008.
SSHRC Insight Grant for Research on LBGTQ+ Shareholder Activism (2024, CAD 81,130, as collaborator, with P. Calluzzo and G. Granic)
Project grant by the CPA Ontario Centre for Corporate Reporting and Professionalism, Social Policies and Sovereign Wealth Fund Investment (jointly with P. Calluzzo and Dave Godsell)
Research grant by the Swiss National Science Foundation 07/2013 - 06/2014
Research grant by the German Academic Exchange Service
New Research Wins Plaudits for Pinpointing Antitrust Red Flags, The Wall Street Journal - Risk and Compliance Journal, April 3, 2013.
The Fiscal Fingerprints of Corporate Collusion, Strategy + Business, May 3, 2013.
How managers conceal the profits of price fixing, Financial Times, May 16, 2013.
Shareholder Activism: Together Is Better, Smith Business Insights, November 11, 2016.
What Drives Corporate LGBTQ+ Policies? Smith Business Insights, July 14, 2022.
Environmental language in corporate filings holds steady as DEI reporting slips, Sustainable Views, by FT, Dec 1, 2025.
Book review on Corporate governance matters - a closer look at organizational choices and their consequences by D. Larcker and B. Tayan
Financial Markets and Portfolio Management, 26(3), 2012
White paper with the Institute for Sustainable Finance
Sentiment and Sustainability: How the language of U.S. corporate filings reveals divergent paths for management priorities on DEI and Environment
Editorial Board: Financial Markets and Portfolio Management (since 2023)
European Financial Association Conference, Local Scientific Committee (2023)
Co-organizer, Benelux Corporate Finance Day (2022)