CURRICULUM VITAE
2018 - present Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Vanderbilt University, USA
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
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: Bulgarian (native), English (fluent), 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
Interests: Swimming, Cycling, Running, Hiking