Centre for Digital Finance
Centre for Digital Finance

Our people

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

Dr Renatas Kizys

Associate Professor in Finance

Research interests

  • Asset pricing
  • Cryptocurrencies
  • Energy economics and finance

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Renatas

Email: R.Kizys@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 8612

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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

Connect with Sasan

Email: S.Barak@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 4465

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Mr Shuyue Li

Connect with Shuyue

Email: sl6m18@soton.ac.uk

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
Connect with Simon

Email: simon.troup@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 2671

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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

Connect with Simon

Email: ssjw@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 3118

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Mr Songshan Qin

Research interests

  • Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Finance
  • Machine Learning in Finance
  • Sustainable Finance
Connect with Songshan

Email: S.Qin@soton.ac.uk

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Dr Suhee Kim

Lecturer in Banking and Finance

Research interests

  • Empirical corporate finance
  • Law and finance
  • Corporate governance

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Suhee

Email: S.Kim@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 2380595620

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Professor Tahir Nisar

Professor

Research interests

  • Crowdfunding
  • AI Automation
  • Social Media

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Tahir

Email: T.M.Nisar@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 3427

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Professor Tapas Mishra

Head of Department Banking and Finance

Research interests

  • Long memory; Green finance and corporate culture; Mergers and Acquisition, Stochastic economic growth; Macroprudential policy and stress testing; Environmental and demographic volatility; Cryptocurrency modelling; Climate finance, Small Business Economics, and Innovation-diffusion modelling.
  • Demography-growth-environmental interdependence
  • Spatio-temporal models

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Tapas

Email: T.K.Mishra@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 1377

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Professor Thanassis Tiropanis

Professor

Research interests

  • Decentralised information systems and infrastructures
  • Data (and Web) observatories
  • Bias in datasets and incassible algorithms

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Thanassis

Email: t.tiropanis@southampton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 9109

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