PhD Placements

This is a list of some former PhD students and their placements after graduation.

PhD students has been placed at universities like Amsterdam, Bocconi, Carnegie-Mellon, Chicago, Columbia, Copenhagen Business School, Harvard, HEC Montreal, LBS, McGill, Nova, Tilburg, University of Zurich as well as the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, BlackRock, or Goldman Sachs. 

 

PhD Placements 2026

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

PhD Placements 2025

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

PhD Placements 2024

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

PhD Placements 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

PhD Placements 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

PhD Placements 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

PhD Placements 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

PhD Placements 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

PhD Placements 2017

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

PhD Placements 2016

Ricardo Lopez Aliouchkin, Assistant Professor, Syracuse University
Tomas Thörnqvist, Research Assistant Professor, HKUST
Egle Karmaziene, Assistant Professor, University of Groningen
 

PhD Placements 2015

Mariana Khapko, Assistant Professor, University of Toronto Scarborough
Nikita Koptyug, Research fellow, Researsh Institute of Industrial Economics
Kristoffer Milonas, Bank of England, Research Economist

PhD Placements 2014

Jan Schnitzler, Assistant Professor, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
Markus Hartwig, Co-Founder GreenStone Energy GmbH
Alberto Crosta, Financial Market Analyst at Finansinspektionen
Rafael de Rezende, Central Bank of Sweden
Àdám Faragó, Assistant Professor, University of Gothenburg
Johannes Breckenfelder, European Central Bank, Frankfurt
Andreas Nilsson, Sonanz

PhD Placements 2013

Kristoffer Lindensjö, Derivatives Trader, Handelsbanken Capital Markets
Patrick Augustin, Assistant Professor, McGill University
Hamid Boustanifar, Assistant Professor, BI Norwegian Business School
 

PhD Placements 2011

Linus Kaisajuntti, Danske Markets Stockholm
Joakim Bång, Senior Lecturer, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

PhD Placements 2010

Daniel Sunesson, Special Advisor, Ministry of Finance, Stockholm, Sweden
Linus Siming, Assistant Professor, Bocconi University, Milano, Italy
Reimo Juks, Sveriges Riksbank

PhD Placements 2009

Henrik Hasseltoft, Assistant Professor, University of Zurich, Schweiz
Thomas Jansson, Sveriges Riksbank, Research Department, Stockholm, Sweden
Samuel Lee, Assistant Professor, Stern School of Business, New York, USA
Agatha Murgoci, Assistant Professor, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

PhD Placements 2008

Mikael Elhouar, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Raana Farooqi-Lind, Senior Administrative Officer, Financial Law and Economics Division, Ministry of Finance, Stockholm, Sweden
Maria Strömqvist, Quantitative Analyst, Brummer Multi-Strategy, Stockholm, Sweden
Johan Söderström, Manticore Capital, Brummer & Partners, Stockholm, Sweden

PhD Placements 2007

Krister Ahlersten, Credit Risk Analyst, Handelsbanken, Stockholm, Sweden
Mia Hinnerich, Postdoctoral fellow, Aarhus University, Denmark

PhD Placements 2006

Raquel Gaspar, Assistant Professor, ISEG, Departamento Gestão, Financas Universidade Tècnica de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
Irina Slinko, Head of Quant Modeling and Research, SEB, Stockholm, Sweden
 

PhD Placements 2005

Andriy Bodnaruk, Assistant Professor, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
Roland Nilsson, Investment Management Practice, Asset Allocation Team, Hewitt, London, UK
Per Östberg, Assistant Professor, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Bergen, Norway

PhD Placements 2004

Anders Anderson, Deputy Director, SIFR, Stockholm, Sweden
Magnus Blix, Associate Director, Barclays Capital, London, UK
Jens Nystedt, Emerging Markets Team, GLG Partners, London, UK
Anete Pajuste, Research Associate, Baltic International Center for Economic Policy Studies, Riga, Latvia and Stockholm, Sweden
Sven Skallsjö, Portfolio Manager, Axial Investment Management, London, UK

PhD Placements 2003

Iryna Ivaschenko, International Monetary Fund, Washington DC, USA

PhD Placements 2002

Mattias Nilsson, Assistant Professor, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, USA

PhD Placements 2001

Stefan Engström, AGENTA Advisors AB, Stockholm, Sweden
Magnus Hyll, Vice President, Merill Lynch Commodoties, London, UK

PhD Placements 2000

Göran Robertsson, Deputy Director, Swedish Institute for Financial Research (SIFR), Stockholm, Sweden

PhD Placements 1999

Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Ulf Axelsson, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago
 

PhD Placements 1998

Joel Reneby, Manager, Advisory Services, Moody’s KMW, London, UK
Karin S. Thorburn, Professor, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA

Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Patrik Sandås, Professor, University of Virginia, McIntire School of Commerce, Charlottsville, USA

PhD Placements 1997

Gustaf E. Hagerud, Head of Tactical Asset Allocation, First Swedish National Pension Fund, Stockholm, Sweden
Jan Ericsson, Associate Professor of Finance, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Patrick Säfvenblad, Head of Hedge Fund Research, DnB NOR Asset Management, Stockholm, Sweden

Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Per Strömberg, Research Fellow, Swedish Institute for Financial Research (SIFR), Stockholm, Sweden

PhD Placements 1996

Johan Molin, Senior Advisor, Sveriges Riksbank, Stockholm, Sweden

London Business School, UK
Tomas Valnek, Fixed Income Research, Credit Lyonnais, London, UK

PhD Placements 1994

Gunnar Dahlfors, Carnegie Investment Bank AB, Stockholm, Sweden
Marianne Nessén, Deputy Head of Monetary Policy Department, Sveriges Riksbank, Stockholm, Sweden
Jonas Niemeyer, Head of Policy and Analysis Division, Financial Stability Department, Sveriges Riksbank, Stockholm, Sweden

PhD Placements 1993

Gun-Ho Cha, Dean of Graduate School of Management, Professor of Enviromental Management, Hankuk Hangkong University, Koyang-City, South Korea
Peter Högfeldt, Associate Professor, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden

PhD Placements 1991

Erik Berglöf, Chief Economist, EBRD, London, UK

PhD Placements 1990

Anders Warne, Researcher, European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

University of Rochester
Ingrid M. Werner, Assistant Professor, Stanford