Centre for Digital Finance

Our people

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

Dr Manuel Nunes

Lecturer in Banking and Finance

Research interests

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) and eXplainable AI in Financial Markets
  • Large Language Models (LLMs) in Finance
  • Reinforcement Learning for Portfolio Management

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Markus Brede

Associate Professor
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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

  • 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 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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Mr Shuyue Li

Research interests

  • Long Memory Regime Switching Dynamics
  • Machine learning and Deep Reinforcement Learning
  • Price Prediction and Trading Strategy Optimisation in Stock and Cryptocurrency Markets
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