Placements - PhD in Finance

This page provides an overview of a selection of former PhD students and their current positions.

PhD students have been placed at universities such as the University of Amsterdam, Bocconi, Carnegie Mellon, Chicago, Columbia, Copenhagen Business School, Harvard, HEC Montréal, London Business School, McGill, NOVA, Tilburg, and the University of Zurich, as well as at organizations including the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, BlackRock, and Goldman Sachs. 

2026

  • Navid Akbaripour, Santander Nordics, Risk Analyst
  • Zhuoqun Liang, FIS Front Arena, Quantitative Analyst

2025

  • Alessia Menichetti, Assistant Professor, ESCP Business School
  • Chunjie Wang, Assistant Professor, KU Leuven

2024

  • Martin Waibel, Economist, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
  • Jiaxin Wu, Lecturer in Finance, University of Glasgow
  • Mustafa Bulut, Postdoctoral Fellow, SHoF and Misum

2023

  • Felix Wilke, Assistant Professor, Nova School of Business and Economics
  • Valentin Schubert, Economist, Research Department of Sveriges Riksbank
  • Michael Klug, Senior Financial Risk Management Consultant, ZEB

2022

  • Henrik Talborn, Head of National Data Center, Swedish House of Finance
  • Katarina Warg, Assistant Professor, Copenhagen Business School
  • Hendro Sugandi, Associate, APG Asset Management
  • Yevheniia Hrabovska, Analyst, Twigeo

2021

  • Andreas Johansson, Assistant Professor, Lund University
  • Yavor Kovachev, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Chicago
  • Xingyu Zhu, Economist, the Bank of International Settlements
  • Yue Tang, Associate Professor, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics
  • Mahamadi Ouoba, ESG Quantitative Researcher, Haskayne School of Business

2020

  • Alberto Allegrucci, Senior research analyst at S&P Global
  • Ivika Jäger, Postdoctoral Researcher and Data Agent at Aalto University
  • Laszlo Sajtos, Analyst at the Swedish Agency for Growth Policy Analysis
  • Yingjie Qi, Assistant Professor, Copenhagen Business School

2018

  • Tommy von Brömsen, Riksbanken
  • Vasilis Dedes, Quantitative Researcher, Black Rock
  • Tolga Demir, Assistant Professor, Sabanci University
  • Marcus Ibert, Economist, The Federal Reserve Board of Governors
  • Erik Sverdrup, Postdoctoral Researcher, Stanford University Graduate School of Business
  • Viktor Thell, Analyst, Finansinspektionen

2017

  • Valeri Sokolovski, Assistant Professor, HEC Montreal
  • Fatemeh Hosseini, Assistant Professor, Tilburg University
  • Jieying Li, Economist at the Financial Stability Department at the Riksbank