Researchers
Professor Dr. Marc Chesney
Chair of the CCSF
Head of Department of Banking and Finance
Professor of Quantitative Finance
Department / Affiliation: Department of Banking and Finance
Research focus areas: Financial crises, derivative products, systemic and environmental risks
Professor Dr. Stefano Battiston
Vice-Chair of the CCSF
Professor of Banking
Director of FINEXUS Center for Financial Networks and Sustainability
Department / Affiliation: Department of Banking and Finance
Research focus areas: climate change and financial stability,
climate transition risk in banks and insurance portfolios, climate policy
Professor Dr. Kern Alexander
Professor of Banking Regulation
Chair for Law and Finance
Department / Affiliation: Faculty of Law
Research focus areas: Central bank mandates and sustainability, bank governance and sustainability, digitalization and financial inclusion, and Covid-19 and financial stability
Professor Dr. Francis Cheneval
Professor of Political Philosophy
Department / Affiliation: Department of Philosophy
Research focus areas: Anatomy of systemic financial risk
Professor Dr. Marco Dell’Erba
Assistant Professor of Corporate and Financial Law
Department / Affiliation: Faculty of Law
Research focus areas: Technology and sustainability in corporate governance and finance
Professor Dr. Lorenz Hilty
Professor Informatics and Sustainability
Sustainability Delegate of UZH
Department / Affiliation: Department of Informatics
Research focus areas: Systems thinking, modelling, and simulation for sustainable societies
Professor Dr. Christian Huggel
Professor of Geography
Department / Affiliation: Department of Geography
Research focus areas: Climate-related risk analysis, climate adaptation and risk management, climate policy
Professor Dr. Markus Leippold
Professor of Financial Engineering
Department / Affiliation: Department of Banking and Finance
Research focus areas: Machine learning for climate solutions, finance applications that utilize remote sensing, optimizing policy based on expanded climate-economic models
Professor Dr. Katharina Michaelowa
Professor of Political Economy and Development
Co-Chair UZH-ETH Network for Interdisciplinary Climate Research
Department / Affiliation: Department of Political Science
Research focus areas: Development economics and politics, international climate policy
Professor Dr. Steven Ongena
Professor of Banking
Department / Affiliation: Department of Banking and Finance
Research focus areas: Banking, (green) lending, macro-finance
Professor Dr. Joachim Rosenthal
Professor of Applied Mathematics
Department / Affiliation: Institute of Mathematics
Research focus areas: Coding theory and cryptography
Professor Dr. Maria J. Santos
Professor Earth System Science
Department / Affiliation: Department of Geography
Research focus areas: Social-ecological systems, global change effects in species and ecosystems, earth observation for biodiversity
Professor Dr. Christian Schwarzenegger
Professor of criminal law, criminal procedure law, and criminology
UZH Vice President Faculty Affairs and Scientific Information
Department / Affiliation: Faculty of Law
Research focus areas: Victim surveys, family violence, public perception of crime control, computer crime and cybercrime
Professor Dr. Jan Seibert
Professor of Hydrology and Climate
Department / Affiliation: Department of Geography
Research Focus Areas: experimental hydrology and modelling, climate impact studies, citizen science
Professor Dr. Rolf Sethe
Professor of Law
Department / Affiliation: Faculty of Law
Research focus areas: Swiss and European supervisory law, international financial regulation, securities and banking law, corporate governance
Professor Dr. Nadine Strauß
Assistant-Professor for Strategic Communication and Media Management (Tenure Track)
Department / Affiliation: Department of Communication and Media Research (IKMZ)
Research Focus Areas: sustainability communication, sustainable finance, financial journalism, financial communication
Professor Dr. Carmen Tanner
Associate Professor of Business Psychology
Director Center for Responsibility in Finance
Department / Affiliation: Department of Banking and Finance
Research focus areas: Behavioural ethics, economic decision-making and psychology
Professor Dr. Alexander Wagner
Professor of Finance
Faculty Member, Swiss Finance Institute
Department / Affiliation: Department of Banking and Finance
Research focus areas: Empirical research in finance and
experimental economics
Professor Dr. Rolf H. Weber
Professor of Law
Department / Affiliation: Faculty of Law
Research focus areas: Financial market law, competition, information technology, international trade, and sustainability law
Cengiz Akandil
PhD student in Ecology
Department / Affiliation: Institute for Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies
Research focus areas: Sustainability in the Arctic, Biodiversity Loss, Remote Sensing, Financial Markets and Biodiversity.
Dr. Delia Coculescu
Senior Academic Associate
Department / Affiliation: Department of Banking and Finance
Research focus areas: Risk assessment for finance, insurance, and decision theory.
Dr. Emmeline Cooper
Post-doctoral Research Fellow
Department / Affiliation: Faculty of Law
Research focus areas: Institutional investors, Sustainable investing, Corporate governance
Dr. Emilia Garcia-Appendini
Senior Research Fellow
Department / Affiliation: Department of Banking and Finance
Research focus areas: Corporate finance, financial intermediation, sustainable finance, climate finance, applied econometrics.
Dr. Matthias Huss
Senior Researcher, Informatics and Sustainability
Department / Affiliation: Department of Informatics
Research focus areas: Food price volatility, food loss and waste, effects on hunger and poverty
Dr. Annette Krauss
CCSF Director for Teaching
Senior Academic Associate
Department / Affiliation: Department of Banking and Finance
Research focus areas: Microfinance / financial inclusion and financial sector development in developing economies; sustainable banking, sustainable and impact investing
Adrien-Paul Lambillon
PhD Candidate & Researcher in Sustainable Finance
Department / Affiliation: Department of Banking and Finance
Research focus areas: Sustainable Finance, Financialization, Inequality
Dr. Axel Michaelowa
Lead, International Climate Policy
Department / Affiliation: Department of Political Science
Research focus areas: International climate policy, international carbon market regulation, climate finance
Dr. Falko Paetzold
Initiator and Managing Director of CSP
Assistant Professor in Social Finance at EBS University (Oestrich-Winkel)
Department / Affiliation: Department of Banking and Finance
Research focus areas: Sustainable finance, impact investing, private wealth
Vincent Wolff
PhD candidate
Department / Affiliation: Department of Banking and Finance
Research focus areas: theoretical and empirical research on the functioning of financial markets
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Dr. Giedre Lideikyte Huber
Senior lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the University of Geneva and a Swiss National Science Foundation researcher
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Dr. Julian Kölbel
Assistant Professor
Department / Affiliation: University of St.Gallen