Team

Members of the efl

Professors

Chairman of the Board
Oliver Hinz is Professor of Information Systems and Information Management. His main topics at efl - the Data Science…
Vice Chairman of the Board
Prof. Dr. Peter Gomber holds the Chair of e-Finance at the University of Frankfurt. He is Co-Chairman and Member of the…
Member of the Board
Prof. Dr. Carsten Binnig is part of the Department of Computer Science at the TU Darmstadt in Darmstadt, Germany. He…
Member of the Board
Prof. Dr. Hackethal's empirical research is on individual investment behavior, the role of financial advice and on…
Member of the Board
Prof. Dr. Bernd Skiera has held the Chair of Electronic Commerce at the Faculty of Economics and Business at…

All Active Team Members

Research Assistant
Micha Bender focuses on empirical financial market research. Furthermore, he is interested in the application of machine…
Research Assistant
Mariia Bilousova joined the efl-The Data Science Institute as a research assistant in January 2021. She is interested in…
Research Assistant
Tino Cestonaro joined the team in April 2020. His research focuses on Market Microstructure, Financial Machine Learning,…
Research Assistant
Johannes Chen studied Business Informatics at the Technical University of Darmstadt. During his studies, he focused on…
Postdoctoral Researcher
Benjamin Clapham conducts empirical research at the intersection of finance and information systems. His work has been…
Research Assistant
Anjana Cordes joined the efl - the Data Science Institute as a research assistant in October 2022.
Research Assistant
Florian Ewald joined the efl research team in May 2023. His research focuses on the application of machine learning and…
Research Assistant
Björn Hanneke joined the efl - the Data Science Institute in 2022. He conducts research on web3 markets, platforms and…
Research Assistant
Lukas Jürgensmeier studied business administration at the University of Augsburg (B.Sc.) and Goethe University (M.Sc.),…
Research Assistant
In September 2019 Orian Mahlow joined the Chair of Electronic Commerce at Goethe University as research assistant and…
Research Assistant
Celina Proffen is currently working at the Chair of Macroeconomics and Development and pursues empirical projects based…
Research Assistant
Julian Schmidt joined the efl - the Data Science Institute as a research assistant in February 2022. His research areas…
Research Assistant
Niklas Trimpe joined the research team in November 2023. His research focuses on the application of machine learning…
Research Assistant
Moritz von Zahn joined the efl - the Data Science Institute in 2022 and conducts research on causal machine learning,…

Alumni

Alumnus
Since March 2018, Benjamin M. Abdel-Karim is a research assistant of Prof. Dr. Oliver Hinz at the Chair of Information…
Professor of Business Information Systems at Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences
Alumna
Clara Ament focused on the field of information security. In particular, she analyzed whether and how employees comply…
Professor für BWL - Marketing Management
Assistant Professor of Strategy and General Management at ESADE Business School, Barcelona
Product Manager Brokerage at ING
Konstantin Bräuer conducts empirical research on individual investor behavior, the role of financial advice and…
Assistant Professor of Marketing at Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Universiy of Luxembourg
Muriel Frank works as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Luxembourg in Luxembourg. Her studies focus on…
Chief Technology Officer at ESG Screen17 GmbH
Lecturer in Information Security, Governance and Leadership
Lennart Jaeger is a Lecturer at the University of Queensland.
Junior Professor at University of Siegen
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Koch engages in education and research concerning Digital Finance and FinTech(s), with special focus on…
Former Chairman of the Board
Until 2022, Wolfgang König held the Senior Professorship for Business Administration, in particular Information Systems…
Head of Customer Experience at BAUR Versand, Burgkunstadt
Alumnus
Jens Lausen worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the efl and was part of the "Data Science for Financial Services"…
Assistant Professor of Marketing at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University Bloomington
Max works as an Assistant Professor of Marketing at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University Bloomington in the…
Chief Product Officer at ESG Screen17 GmbH
Sven focused on market microstructure research and risk management topics. He is also interested in machine learning…
Alumnus
Nicolas Pfeuffer studied Business Informatics at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt (M.Sc.). During his master’s program,…
Alumnus
Lukas Manuel Ranft worked as a research assistant at Goethe University. He worked in the field of financial data…
Leading AI innovation to production at Deutsche Bundesbank
Assistant Professor of Marketing at UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School, Chapel Hill NC
Alumnus
Timo Schäfer analyzed how investors process textual information on financial markets. Besides his research, he was one…
Associate Professor of Marketing at Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
Professor
Prof. Ralf Steinmetz worked for over nine years in industrial research and development of distributed multimedia systems…
Head of Strategic IT Supplier Management at Volkswagen Financial Services AG
Assistant Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen

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