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Lukas is a PhD candidate in his 4th year in Finance and Data Science at the Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE, supervised by Alexander Hillert. He holds an M.Sc. from the University of Regensburg and an MBA from Murray State University. His research focuses on asset pricing, corporate finance, and behavioral finance, with a particular emphasis on firm networks, information flows, and the systematic extraction of structured signals from large-scale unstructured data using both econometric techniques and AI-driven methods.

Felix joined Frankfurt School of Finance & Management in 2021 as a doctoral student in Finance. He holds a B.Sc. in Business Administration and an M.Sc. in Finance from the University of Mannheim. Prior to joining Frankfurt School, Felix worked as an investment banking analyst at Goldman Sachs in London and Frankfurt. His research interests include empirical financial intermediation, corporate finance, commercial & investment banking, and geopolitics.

Giorgio is a Ph.D. candidate in the Finance Department at Frankfurt School of Finance & Management since September 2024. He holds an M.Sc. in Finance from Frankfurt School and a Bachelor's degree in Economics and Management from the Free University of Bolzano.

His research lies at the intersection of asset pricing, macro-finance, and financial intermediation. He studies how macroeconomic dynamics, financial institutions, and capital markets interact, with a particular interest in understanding how risks are priced and transmitted through the financial system. 

Jana-Lynn joined Frankfurt School of Finance in Management as a Finance Ph.D. student in September 2023. After having obtained her B.Sc. degree in Economics and Business Administration from Goethe-University Frankfurt, she studied Quantitative Economics as an M.Sc. student at the Graduate School of Economics, Finance, and Management (GSEFM). During her studies, Jana worked as a research assistant in several institutions and departments, such as the German Council of Economic Experts in the Monetary Policy, and Business Cycles and Growth Research Centers

Paulina joined the PhD program at Frankfurt School of Finance & Management in 2022. In the fall of 2024, she spent a semester as a visiting researcher at New York University (NYU). She holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Justus-Liebig-University in Giessen and a Master of Science in Finance from Frankfurt School, where she worked as a research assistant during her final year.

Her research interests focus on empirical corporate finance, particularly at the intersection of machine learning and finance. 

Yuni is a PhD student in Finance, where she joined the Ph.D. program in September 2024. She holds an MSc in Finance from the National University of Singapore and a bachelor's degree in International Economics and Trade from Beijing Normal University, during which she also participated in a 1-year academic exchange in economics at the Autonomous University of Madrid.

Her research agenda is at the intersection of corporate finance, banking, and credit markets, with an emphasis on how financing terms and credit allocation respond to systemic shocks. Her current work consolidates empirical analyses on how borrowing costs, lender supply, and the composition of credit adjust across segments of the lending market when macro conditions tighten or when geopolitical risk rises.