I am Deputy Head of Department (Research), and Associate Professor in Finance at the Department of Finance, Durham University Business School. My main research focus is behavioural finance; drawing on the nexus between finance and psychology, I investigate aspects of investment behaviour relevant to finance, as well as non-finance disciplines (including for example, politics and public health). My work primarily involves the study of collective behavioural trading patterns (herding; feedback trading), their determinants, their contribution to mispricing, as well as the possibility of their transmission across markets/asset classes.
I have to date published over 40 papers in several leading international peer-reviewed academic journals, including the Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Corporate Finance, Risk Analysis Journal, European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of Banking and Finance, and the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. My book Dawn of Behavioural Finance, 1688 (2024) backdates behavioural finance to the 17th century by demonstrating for the first time that Joseph de la Vega's Confusion of Confusions (1688) is the seminal treatise in the field. I have also co-edited two books (Elsevier), and contributed to edited works by key publishers (Elsevier; McGraw-Hill; Wiley) and institutions (National Stock Exchange of India). I have been invited to present my research at regulatory bodies (Financial Conduct Authority; Securities Exchange Commission of Portugal; Bulgarian National Bank), as well as several academic and professional conferences; my research has further been disseminated via educational blogs, and online media outlets. I am Associate Editor of the Review for Behavioral Finance, and member of the editorial board of PLOS ONE, Economic Analysis, and the International Journal of Economics and Finance.
I have designed and taught a broad range of under- and post-graduate courses in Economics, Econometrics, and Finance; I have also designed and delivered short behavioural finance courses for community education purposes via the Continuing Education Department (University of Liverpool). I have pioneered the teaching of the emerging research area of neurofinance in UK Higher Education, by designing and delivering the first ever-launched courses (a short course for the University of Liverpool, and a postgraduate course for Durham University) on the subject in the UK.
Before joining Durham, I was Senior Lecturer at the University of Liverpool Management School, where I began working as Lecturer in October 2011. Prior to that, I was working as Teaching Fellow in Finance at Durham University Business School (from where I also obtained my PhD in 2007). I have also taught part-time in several UK universities, including the University of Birmingham, the University of Glasgow, the University of Leeds, the University of Reading, and the University College London. In 2010 I was Visiting Researcher at the Bulgarian National Bank, while since 2023 I have been Adjunct Professor at The University of Jordan.