Centre for Digital Finance

Our people

Learn about our academic experts, from their research interests to their contact details.

Dr Martin Enilov PhD, MSc, BSc, FHEA, PGCert

Lecturer in Banking and Finance

Research interests

  •     Applied Macroeconomics
  •     Mixed-Frequency  Econometrics
  •     Tourism Economics

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Mohamed Bakoush PhD, CFA, FRM, MCSI, FHEA

Lecturer in Finance

Research interests

  • Systemic Risk & Financial Stability
  • Financial Innovation & Fintech
  • Sustainable Finance & Climate Risk

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Nicky Marsh

PROFESSOR

Research interests

  • Intersections between culture and economics
  • Cultural representations of risk, money, finance, markets
  • Gender, feminism and the economy 
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Dr Panayiotis Papakyriakou

Lecturer in Finance

Research interests

  • Empirical Corporate Finance
  • Empirical Asset Pricing
  • Behavioural Finance

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Patrick Doncaster

Professor of Ecology

Research interests

  • Population ecology 
  • Conservation management of forest and freshwater lake ecosystems
  • Conservation technology and tools for data analysis
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Dr Peng Xu D.Sc.

Lecturer in Management Science

Research interests

  • Data-driven decision analytics: Prescriptive and behavioral
  • Decision support models and systems
  • Stochastic dominance

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Renatas Kizys

Associate Professor in Finance

Research interests

  • Asset pricing
  • Cryptocurrencies
  • Energy economics and finance

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Sasan Barak

Lecturer in Business Analytics

Research interests

  • Financial Machine Learning (including Portfolio Optimisation, Algorithmic Trading)
  • Forecasting (Model Selection, Meta-Learning, Deep Learning)
  • Statistical and Machine Learning Algorithms in Analytics

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Simon Troup

Principal Enterprise Fellow

Research interests

  • data wrangling, data science and data products
  • tech product strategy and business models
  • fintech unbundling and platforms
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Professor Simon Wolfe

Professor in Banking and Finance

Research interests

  • Financial regulations
  • Financial stability
  • Depositor protection schemes

Accepting applications from PhD students

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