Researchers
Professor Dr. Kern Alexander
Professor of International Banking and Financial Law
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 stabilityContact & Research
Professor Dr. Yeşim Atamer
Chair for Private Law, Commercial Law, European and Comparative Law
Department / Affiliation: Faculty of Law
Research focus areas: Law of Obligations, especially Comparative Contract Law, Harmonization of European Contract Law, Law of Domestic and International Sale of Goods, Regulation and Contract Law law and sustainabilityContact & Research
Professor Dr. Stefano Battiston
Professor in Sustainable Finance and Networks
Department / Affiliation: Department of Finance
Research focus areas: climate change and financial stability,
climate transition risk in banks and insurance portfolios, climate policy
Professor Dr. Debjani Bhattacharyya
Chair for the History of the Anthropocene
Department / Affiliation: Department of History
Research focus areas: climate history, insurance, de-risking, financial history
Professor Dr. Francis Cheneval
Professor of Political Philosophy
Department / Affiliation: Department of Philosophy
Research focus areas: Anatomy of systemic financial risk
Professor Dr. Delia Coculescu
Associate Professor of Quantitative Risk Analysis
Department / Affiliation: Department of Finance
Research focus areas: Risk assessment for finance, insurance, and decision theory
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Professor Dr. Aline Darbellay
Assistant Professor of Law
Chair for Banking and Capital Markets Law
Department / Affiliation: Faculty of Law
Research focus areas: corporate law and financial market law, with a focus in sustainability research
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. Christian Huggel
Professor of Geography (Environment and Climate)
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 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. Christine Lötscher
Institute Co-Director and Professor for Popular Literature and Media with focus on Children’s and Youth Media
Department / Affiliation: ISEK - Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies Contact & Research
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 Finance
Research focus areas: Banking, (green) lending, macro-finance
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. Zacharias Sautner
Professor of Sustainable Finance
Department / Affiliation: Department of Finance and Swiss Finance Institute
Research focus areas: Sustainable Finance, Climate Finance, Biodiversity Finance, ESG RatingsContact & Research
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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 Civil, Commercial and Business 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
Department / Affiliation: Department of Communication and Media Research (IKMZ)
Research Focus Areas: sustainability communication, sustainable finance, financial journalism, financial communication
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Professor Dr. Alexander Wagner
Professor of Finance
Faculty Member: Swiss Finance Institute
Department / Affiliation: Department of 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
Dr. Cengiz Akandil
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. Jeannette Behringer
Senior Researcher/Responsible Sustainable Development in Research and Teaching UZH
Head Program Sufficiency
Department / Affiliation: Sustainability Hub
Research focus areas: Sustainable Development & Transformation, Democracy & Sustainable Development, Ethics.
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Dr. Emilia Garcia-Appendini
Senior Research Fellow
Department / Affiliation: Department of Finance
Research focus areas: Corporate finance, financial intermediation, sustainable finance, climate finance, applied econometrics.
Dr. Glen Gostlow
Postdoc
Department / Affiliation: Department of Finance
Research focus areas: Finance, environment, disclosure
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 Finance
Research focus areas: Microfinance / financial inclusion and financial sector development in developing economies; sustainable banking, sustainable and impact investingContact & Research
Dr. Adrien-Paul Lambillon
Researcher in Sustainable Finance
Department / Affiliation: Department of 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 Contact & Research
Vincent Wolff
PhD candidate
Department / Affiliation: Department of Finance
Research focus areas: theoretical and empirical research on the functioning of financial markets
ASSOCIATED MEMBERS
Dr. Emmeline Cooper
Post-doctoral Research Fellow
Research focus areas: Institutional investors, Sustainable investing, Corporate governance
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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SENIOR FELLOWS
Dr. Xenia Karametaxas
Policy Advisor for Sustainable Finance, Swiss State Secretariat for International Finance, Policy Planning and Strategy Unit
Expert focus areas: Regulatory initiatives in the field of sustainable finance
Dr. Tadas Zukas
Senior Counsel / Attorney, Dr. iur., LL.M., Author of ‘European Sustainable Finance Regulation in a Nutshell’, Senior Fellow at CSP
Expert focus areas: Swiss and European sustainable finance market