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I am a Professor of Finance and hold the Chair of Finance and Banking at Technische Universität Chemnitz, Faculty of Economics and Business, Germany. Previously, I worked as Associate Professor in Finance at Queen's Management School, Queen's University Belfast, UK. In 2022 and 2023, I was a EUNextGen-funded Visiting Professor at the University of Barcelona School of Economics, Department of Econometrics, Statistics and Applied Economics. 

I hold a PhD in Finance (2017) and a Master's degree in Financial Mathematics (2013) from Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany. I attended San Diego State University in 2010 and The University of Memphis as visiting scholar in 2016. 

I am ranked in the recent WirtschaftsWoche/Handelsblatt ranking of the most research-intensive business economists under 40 years ("forschungsstärkste Betriebswirte unter 40") in German-speaking countries (Austria, Germany, and Switzerland). 

My research interests include econometric modeling and machine learning within the fields of finance and economics, energy & carbon economics, the financialization of commodity markets and connectedness to financial markets such as equity and fixed-income markets and volatility forecasting with application in financial risk management and portfolio optimization.