CURRICULUM VITAE
2018 - present Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Vanderbilt University, USA
2020 - present Senior Research Fellow, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
2011 - 2016 Ph.D. in Finance, Vienna Graduate School of Finance, Austria
Visiting Scholar, Summer 2016, University of Lugano (SFI), Switzerland
2009 - 2010 M.Sc. in Business Economics and Finance, London Metropolitan University, UK
2008 - 2009 Diploma for Graduates in Finance, London School of Economics, UK
2005 - 2009 B.Sc. in International Economic Relations (B.Sc. in BA), University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria
2011 - 2016 Full Scholarship, Vienna Graduate School of Finance (VGSF)
2015 Best Paper Award, Swiss Society for Financial Market Research (SGF)
2015 Outstanding Research Award, Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU)
2015 Research Grant, WU Gutmann Research Center
2014 Doctoral Student Travel Grant, American Finance Association (AFA)
2014 Doctoral Student Travel Grant, Western Finance Association (WFA)
2013 Doctoral Summer School Grant, European Accounting Association (EAA)
2008 CFA Scholarship, Bulgarian CFA Society
2005 - 2009 Scholarship for excellent performance, University of Plovdiv
2018 - present Ad Hoc Referee: Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies
2014 - 2015 Organizer: VGSF Finance Brown Bag Seminar, 2014 - 2015
2020 Discussion: 2020 FARS Midyear Meeting: Sifting through earnings per share distortion
2019 Chairperson: 2019 FMA Annual Meeting: Debt Structure & Contracting (Session 110)
2018 Chairperson: 2018 FMA Annual Meeting: Disclosure & Analysts (Session 165)
2015 Discussion: 2015 EFA Doctoral Tutorial: The Big Innovation Bang
2015 Discussion: 2015 SGF Conference: Asymmetric Information and Imperfect Competition in Lending Markets
2014 Discussion: 2014 AFBC Overcapitalization Part I: A Perspective on Canadian Banks and Basel I
2016 - 2018 Cornerstone Research, Washington DC, USA
Associate
2010 - 2011 Raiffeisen Centrobank, Vienna, Austria
Capital Markets and Equity Research Analyst
2009 Deloitte, Sofia, Bulgaria
Summer Intern - Corporate Finance
2008 Deloitte, Sofia, Bulgaria
Trainee program - Audit
Languages: English (fluent), Bulgarian (native), German (fluent), Macedonian (fluent)
Programming: Stata, Matlab, Mathematica, Eviews, LATEX, Python
Databases: WRDS, Datastream, Bloomberg, Capital IQ, SNL, EDGAR
Activities: Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Charterholder, CFA Institute, USA
Causal Inference Workshop (2014), Northwestern University, USA
Doctoral Summer School on Accounting (2013), University of Bern, Switzerland
AIESEC (NGO), Member and VP Finance (2005-2007), Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Citizenship: Bulgarian, U.S. Green Card
Interests: Swimming, Cycling, Running, Hiking