EDUCATION
PhD Finance University of Southampton, October 2011 – July 2015
MSc International Finance, Distinction University of Dundee September 2009 – September 2010
BA European Economy & Management Abertay University, Dundee September 2007 – June 2008
BSc Economics, Major in Finance Edutus University, Hungary September 2003 – June 2007
SOFTWARE/DATA SCIENCE SKILLS
Python - advanced
LaTeX - advanced
PyCharm - intermediate
STATA - intermediate
SQL - basic
R - basic
Statistics/Econometrics - advanced
Bayesian Statistics - intermediate
Machine Learning - intermediate
NLP - intermediate
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Associate Professor of Finance Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh Aug 2023 – to present UK
Lead research projects and collaborations and contribute to research strategy and postgraduate research leadership.
Design, develop, restructure and deliver undergraduate and postgraduate courses and programmes, alongside wider academic leadership and University service.
Supervise PhD, MSc and undergraduate theses and dissertations.
Visiting Professor of Finance, MODUL University Vienna, Austria Sep 2025 - to present
Designed and deliver 'Financing New Ventures', an MBA and MSc course covering venture financing, venture capital, valuation, financing strategies and term-sheet negotiation.
Assistant Professor of Finance Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh May 2016 – to Aug 2023
Conducted independent and collaborative research projects and contributed to research activities within the School.
Designed, developed, restructured and delivered undergraduate and postgraduate courses and programmes, alongside academic and administrative responsibilities.
Supervised PhD, MSc and undergraduate theses and dissertations.
Adjunct Lecturer of Finance University of Southampton September 2015 – June 2016 UK
• Delivered courses at Undergraduate and Postgraduate levels in the topics of Investment and Research Methods.
Teaching Assistant University of Southampton September 2012 – June 2015 UK
• Delivered seminars at Undergraduate and Postgraduate levels in the topics of Portfolio Theory, Statistical Modelling in EViews, and Research Methods.
Visiting Researcher University of California, Santa Cruz March 2013 – June 2013 USA
• Developed a research project on early warning systems to detect risk contagion within the banking system, under the supervision of Prof David Draper, based in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics (Jack Baskin School of Engineering), University of California, Santa Cruz.
Global Insurance Claim Manager Europ Assistance 2005 – 2007, Hungary
• Managed a Team of 30, organised complex repatriations and settled larger than six-figure insurance claims.
Finance Officer Accor Services 2003 – 2005 Hungary
• Book keeping and and preparing financial reports.
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2025: Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK
2022: Philanthropic Funding in European and Financial Studies, £10,000
2021: Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK
2014: Overseas Institutional Visit Award, Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), UK, £4,800
2013: Google Scholar Award, International Society of Bayesian Analysis Annual Conference, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
2011-2014: ESRC PhD Studentship, University of Southampton, UK, £48,000
2011-2014: Advanced Quantitative Methods Studentship, ESRC, UK, £3,000
Research Expertise
Financial stability and systemic risk; financial regulation; high-cost short-term credit and microfinance; behavioural finance; sustainable finance and energy economics; applied econometrics and data science.
Research methods: time-series and panel-data econometrics; structural VARs; local projections; threshold and regime-switching models; quantile methods; volatility modelling; Bayesian modelling; principal component analysis; machine learning; Natural Language Processing and sentiment analysis; qualitative research methods, including thematic analysis of open-ended survey data and interview data.
PERSONAL INTERESTS
Reading, travelling, trekking, camping, swimming, DIY and amateur watercolour painting.