Staff available to supervise

Department staff who are qualified and have been approved by UTS for principal supervision of postgraduate research degree students in finance and their areas of expertise.

Name	Research Interests	Current Students	Past Students
Vitali Alexeev	Empirical Finance (high-frequency finance, high-frequency financial econometrics, analysis of extreme and rare events), Portfolio Choice (high-dimensional covariance prediction and robust estimation, portfolio simulation methods, fundamental indexing and smart beta), Sentiment Analysis (textual-based sentiment analytics from news and social media, image-based emotion and sentiment analytics).	Justin Hitchen Clint Howard Veronica Ong (Co-supervisor) Vladislav Pyzhov (Co-supervisor)	Baoqing Gan (Thesis)
Lorenzo Casavecchia	Fund Management, Corporate Finance, Empirical Asset Pricing, Real Estate		Shu Yang (Co-supervisor) (Thesis)
Deborah Cotton	Sustainability, ethics, impact investing, women in finance	Madeline Hamilton Combe (Co-supervisor) Fredy Pulga
Ester Felez Vinas		Tra Nguyen (Co-supervisor) Anurag Soin (Co-supervisor)
Kristoffer Glover Finance PhD Program Coordinator	Financial economics, dynamic corporate finance, derivative pricing and risk management, quantitative portfolio management, and the effects of incomplete and asymmetric information in financial markets	Vladislav Pyzhov
Gerhard Hambusch	Corporate Finance Financial markets Asset pricing Ethical decision making	Ellenora Webster	Keunbae Ahn (Thesis)
Hardy Hulley	Financial economics, investment management, quantitative finance, stochastic control theory, optimal stopping, stochastic analysis and probability theory		Shu Yang (Thesis)
Thomas Matthys	Banking, access to finance, shareholder activism, hedge funds, and monetary policy	Nikesh Lalchandani (Co-supervisor)
David Michayluk	David works in a diverse range of complementary research areas all with the overarching theme of understanding how people make decisions in financial markets, corporate finance and market microstructure. His latest work includes improving how financial literacy is measured and taught, understanding when people make savings decisions and how financial advice is perceived and valued.	Inji Allahverdiyeva (Co-supervisor) Haritha Veeramanickathadathil Hari (Co-supervisor) Justin Hitchen (Co-supervisor) Duy Nguyen (Co-supervisor) Ellenora Webster (Co-supervisor)	Marc Bohmann (Thesis) Jagjeev Dosanjh (Thesis) Leonardo Fernandez (Thesis) Martin Hauptfleisch (Thesis) Guojie Ma (Thesis) Vinay Patel (Thesis) Scott Walker (Thesis) Gerhard van de Venter Yang Zhang (Thesis)
Marco Navone	Mutual funds and empirical corporate finance
Christina Nikitopoulos Sklibosios	Christina is an experienced researcher in energy finance, commodity markets, fixed income markets, renewable energy and sustainable finance. Her research projects analyse a) the dynamics and the drivers of prices and volatilities in crude oil, gold, electricity and energy markets, b) the impact of renewable energy generation on electricity markets, c) optimal divestment practices with realistic portfolio construction strategies, and d) green bond markets.	Xinyi Deng Krisztina Katona Zechu (Jason) Liu (Co-supervisor) Mohammad Hadi Sehatpour	Benjamin Tin Chun Cheng (Thesis) Prateek Samuel Daniels (Thesis) Muthe Mwampashi Blessing Taruvinga (Thesis)
Vinay Patel	Market microstructure, corporate finance, asset pricing, derivatives, and decentralised finance. In particular, informed and insider trading, price discovery, market efficiency, liquidity, and asset pricing in equity and derivatives markets.	Linh Do (Co-supervisor) Haritha Veeramanickathadathil Hari Atiqur Rahman Rasel (Co-supervisor) Qi Zhang (Co-supervisor)
Kenny Phua		Zechu (Jason) Liu (Co-supervisor)
Talis Putnins	Talis Putnins’ research interests include three main themes: (i) financial misconduct, (ii) financial markets including decentralised finance (DeFi), and (iii) asset pricing. His work on financial misconduct includes insider trading, various forms of market manipulation, illegal use of cryptocurrencies, tax evasion, and measuring the shadow economy. His research on financial market microstructure spans DeFi, digital assets, cryptocurrencies, blockchains, decentralised markets, liquidity, and price formation. In asset pricing, his research has examined liquidity risk, the impacts of passive investing, and separating noise from information.	Inji Allahverdiyeva Linh Do Clint Howard Tra Nguyen Atiqur Rahman Rasel Anurag Soin	Anirudh Dhawan (Thesis) Jonathan Ravn Karlsen (Thesis) Marta Khomyn (Thesis) Thanh Huong Nguyen (Thesis) Man Nguyen (Thesis)
Kylie-Anne Richards		Mohammad Hadi Sehatpour (Co-supervisor)
Harry Scheule	Asset pricing, banking, credit and liquidity risk, home equity release, house prices in distress, insurance, mortgages, prudential regulation, real estate finance, securities evaluation and structured finance	Nikesh Lalchandani Chung (Windy) Mai Veronica Ong	Christina Bui (Thesis) Thi Mai Luong (Thesis) Muhammad Saifuddin Khan (Thesis)
Gerhard Van de Venter	Ethics, sustainability, behavioural finance, finance education, investments, risk tolerance, corporate finance	Duy Nguyen
Scott Walker		Haritha Veeramanickathadathil Hari (Co-supervisor)
Kathy Walsh	Internationalisation of the Renminbi, Chinese capital markets, asset pricing, women in finance	Madeline Hamilton Combe Ziqian (Niki) Li	Thu Lan Ho Sarah Osborne David Tan
Jianxin Wang	Volatility dynamics, measuring and modelling liquidity, measuring and modelling information flow, Asian emerging financial markets, foreign exchange markets, currency internationalization	Zechu (Jason) Liu Yifeng Xu Qi Zhang	Fei Su (Thesis) Alice Thomas (Thesis) Ran Xiao (Thesis)
Danny Yeung	Role of institutional investors in setting stock prices, Quantitative equity strategies, Impact of investors emotion in influencing stock prices and financial markets, Impact of ambiguity in influencing stock prices and financial markets	Yifeng Xu (Co-supervisor)