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Academic Positions

• University of Mannheim, Assistant Professor / Postdoctoral Researcher (since 2020)

• Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, Adjunct Lecturer (since 2022)

Previous Positions

• University of Mannheim, Research and Teaching Assistant (2014 - 2020)

• Research Center SAFE, Goethe University Frankfurt, Research Assistant (2016 - 2018)

Visiting and External Positions

• Cardiff Business School, Visiting Academic (2023/05-06)

• University of Technology Sydney, Visiting Researcher (2019/04)

• European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), External Researcher (2018/10-12)

• Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (NHH), Visiting Student (2010/08-12)

Education

• Ph.D. in Finance (University of Mannheim, 2020)

• M.Sc. Business Administration, concentration in Finance (University of Mannheim, 2014)

• B.Sc. Economics, concentration in Econometrics (University of Mannheim, 2011)

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Research

Publications

• The Economics of Liquid Staking Derivatives: Basis Determinants and Price Discovery (with H. Jahanshahloo). Journal of Futures Markets (2025)

• Dark Web Traffic, Privacy Coins, and Cryptocurrency Trading Activity. Finance Research Letters (2024)

• Intraday Herding and Attention Around the Clock (with Y. Shi). Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance (2024)

• Non-Standard Errors (with A. Menkveld, A. Dreber, and many more. I contributed as a member of a research team). Journal of Finance (2024)

• Fan Tokens: Sports and Speculation on the Blockchain (with M. Scharnowski and L. Zimmermann). Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money (2023)

• Central Bank Speeches and Digital Currency Competition. Finance Research Letters (2022)

• Understanding Bitcoin Liquidity. Finance Research Letters (2021)

• Liquidity in the German Stock Market (with T. Johann, E. Theissen, C. Westheide, and L. Zimmermann). Schmalenbach Business Review (2019)
  Media Coverage: Institutional Money 

Working Papers

• Broker Colocation and the Execution Costs of Customer and Proprietary Orders (with S. Sagade and C. Westheide). SAFE Working Paper No. 366

• A Tale of Two Cities – Inter-Market Latency and Fast-Trader Competition (with S. Sagade, E. Theissen and C. Westheide). SAFE Working Paper No. 430 

• The Effects of Post-Trade Transparency in Equity Markets: Evidence from MiFID Large Trade Disclosure Rules (with C. Westheide)

• Bitcoin Blackout - Proof-of-Work and the Risks of Mining Centralization (with Y. Shi)

• Social Media, High-frequency Trading, and Market Making After-hours. R&R

• Behavior on Blockchains: Trading Activity in Tokenized Financial Assets

Conference and Seminar Presentations

[2025] University of Graz [2024]  Shanghai-London-Edinburgh Fintech Conference, Research in Behavioral Finance Conference (Amsterdam), The Microstructure Exchange, WBS Gillmore FinTech Conference° (London), IFZ FinTech Colloquium (Rotkreuz), Crypto Asset Lab Conference (Milan) [2023] Australasian Finance & Banking Conference, Cardiff Fintech Conference, Conference on Behavioral Research in Finance and Governance and Accounting, The Microstructure Exchange*, Cryptocurrency Research Conference (Monaco), Ghent Workshop on Fintech [2022] Bonn Workshop on Digital Currencies°, UWA Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Conference, Cardiff Fintech Conference, Cryptocurrency Research Conference (Durham), Financial Engineering and Banking Society Conference (Portsmouth), QMUL Behavioural Finance Working Group Annual Conference*, French Finance Association (Saint-Malo, 2x), Spring Meeting of Young Economists* (Orleans), Economics of Financial Technology Conference (Edinburgh, 2x), CryptoAssets and Digital Asset Investment Conference (Rennes, 3x)  [2021]  UWA Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Conference, Crypto Asset Lab Conference (Milan), Annual Financial Market Liquidity Conference (Budapest), German Finance Association (Innsbruck), Cryptocurrency Research Conference (2x), World Finance Conference (2x) [2020] Goethe University Frankfurt Finance Brownbag [2019] FIRN Microstructure Meeting (Sydney), University of Technology Sydney Finance Brownbag, Future of Financial Information Conference* (Stockholm), University of Vienna Finance Brownbag*, German Finance Association (Essen, 2x), Paris December Finance Meeting [2018] RGS Doctoral Conference in Economics, Goethe University Frankfurt Finance Brownbag [2017] Augustin Cournot Doctoral Days (Strasbourg) [2016] Annual Financial Market Liquidity Conference (Budapest), Doctoral Meeting of Montpellier, German Finance Association (Bonn), Goethe University Frankfurt Finance Brownbag, SAFE Microstructure Workshop [2015] University of Bonn*, HVB Doctoral Meeting Südwest

Includes scheduled, presentations by co-authors (*), and discussion-only (°)

Datasets

• Market Microstructure Database Xetra (with T. Johann, E. Theissen, C. Westheide, and L. Zimmermann)
  One problem faced by researchers interested in liquidity is that measuring it oftentimes requires intraday high-frequency data. Such datasets are expensive and, because of their size, hard to work with. We address this problem for the German equity market by providing a database that contains various daily market-microstructure measures of liquidity on the stock level for all stocks contained in the CDAX index from 1999 to 2013 traded on Xetra. The database is available free of charge to qualifying researchers. Find out more here: https://www.ifk-cfs.de/research/databases/market-microstructure-database-xetra.html
  (We gratefully acknowledge financial support from the German Science Foundation (DGF) under grant TH 724/6-1. “Xetra” and “CDAX” are registered trademarks of Deutsche Börse AG.)

Service to the Profession

Refereeing for Journals

• Applied Economics Letters; Economics Letters; Finance Research Letters; Financial Innovation; International Review of Economics and Finance; International Review of Financial Analysis; Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance; Journal of Futures Markets; Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money; Journal of Sports Economics; Research in International Business and Finance

Refereeing for Conferences

• Spring Meeting of Young Economists; Annual Meeting of the European Association of Young Economists; Crypto Asset Lab Conference 

Refereeing for Funding Agencies

• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)

Other Activities

• Member of the Jury at the German Startup Cup for FinTechs during Seasons 2021/2022 and 2023

In the Media

• Mannheimer Morgen asked for my opinion regarding cryptocurrency retail payments (again) (2025/03)

• Financial Times' Alphaville references my paper on Social Media, High-frequency Trading, and Market Making After-hours (2025/01)

• Die Rheinpfalz asked for my opinion regarding Donald Trump's meme coin (2025/01)

• Blockchain Magazine references my paper on Dark Web Traffic, Privacy Coins, and Cryptocurrency Trading Activity (2024/10)

• Mannheimer Morgen asked for my opinion regarding cryptocurrency retail payments (2024/05)

• Institutional Money covered our paper on Liquidity in the German Stock Market (2019/04)

Teaching

Graduate Teaching

• FinTech (Lecture, since 2021, U Mannheim)
  This course covers recent technological innovations and the emergence of new players in the financial services industry. A special focus is on blockchains and their application to cryptocurrencies and DeFi. Other introduced innovations include alternative payment systems, crowd finance, AI in finance, InsurTech, and robo advising, while also presenting associated risks and regulatory approaches. 

• Financial Management (Lecture, since 2022, Frankfurt School of Finance)
  This course is taught in the Master of Applied Data Science at FS and provides a graduate-level introduction to finance. Topics covered include investment decisions under uncertainty, portfolio optimization, asset pricing, and corporate finance.

• Corporate Finance (Lecture, since 2023, Mannheim Business School)
  I teach this course at MBS in the accounting and taxation master programs. It covers the basics of corporate finance including capital structure and payout policies, project analysis, working capital management, and credit risk.

• Stata in Finance (Lecture, since 2016, U Mannheim)
  This course provides in introduction to scientific work in Stata with a particular focus on analyzing financial datasets.

• Investments (Lecture, 2020, U Mannheim)

• Empirical Finance (Exercise sessions, since 2018, U Mannheim)

• Decision Analysis (Exercise sessions, 2014 - 2015, U Mannheim)

• Seminar on Empirical Finance (since 2016, U Mannheim)

• Seminar on Climate Finance (2021, U Mannheim)

• Seminar on Market Microstructure (2017, U Mannheim)

Undergraduate Teaching

• Investments and Asset Pricing (Lecture, 2025, U Mannheim)

• Financial Mathematics (Tutorial sessions, 2009 – 2012, U Mannheim)

Thesis Supervision

• Recent Examples Graduate: Climate Change, Carbon Uncertainty, and Emissions Trading – Market Efficiency and Data Mining – Privacy Coins – Tokenized Stocks – Price Discovery on Decentralized Exchanges – Volatility Patterns in Cryptocurrencies – Understanding Asymmetric FX Volatility around the World – OTC Trading Around Large Institutional Orders – Order Flow Toxicity, Informed Trading, and Transparency

• Recent Examples Undergraduate: Blockchain Applications in Finance – Meme Numbers and Cryptocurrency Trading – InsurTech – Crowd Finance and Social Trading – Central Bank Digital Currencies – RegTech – Liquidity and Efficiency of Carbon Emissions Trading – Social Media and Financial Markets – Sports Events and Financial Markets – International Commonality in Liquidity – Transaction Costs of Institutional Investors