This page summarizes my CV.  Please find a complete version [here].
🇷🇴Romanian (🇪🇺European Union) citizen;  🇨🇦Canadian Permanent Resident 

Academic Affiliations

  • Today. University of Toronto Mississauga and Rotman School of Management. Assistant Professor of Finance.
  • 2015-2018. Université Paris-Dauphine. Assistant Professor of Finance.

Education

  • 2015. VU University Amsterdam. PhD in Financial Economics.
  • 2014. Toulouse School of Economics. Visiting PhD scholar, faculty sponsor Sophie Moinas.
  • 2012. Tinbergen Institute Amsterdam. MPhil in Finance.

Honors and Fellowships

  • 2019. Connaught New Researcher Award ($20,000) for Digital Finance: Initial Coin Offerings and Token Market Structure ​project.
  • 2018. Canadian Securities Institute Research Grant (w/ Claire Célérier and Mariana Khapko, $40,000) for Robo-Advisors: Delegated Asset Management in the Digital Age ​project.
  • 2018. SSHRC Insight Development Grant (co-applicant w/ Mariana Khapko, $41,179) for Speed and Market Structure in the Digital Age project.
  • 2017. ANR (French National Research Agency). JCJC ​Young Researchers Grant (€170,000) for Market Design in the Digital Age (MIDAS) project on FinTech and market quality (principal investigator).
  • 2017. First Annual Toronto FinTech Conference. Runner-up Best Paper Award for "Smart Settlement."
  • 2016. Europlace Institute of Finance. Research grant (€10,000) for Markets of Tomorrow project on
    Blockchain-driven exchanges (head scientist).​
  • 2016. Federation of European Exchanges. Josseph de la Vega Prize (€5,000), annual award for "outstanding research on securities markets in Europe."
  • 2014. Eastern Finance Association (EFA).  Paper "Need for Speed? Exchange Latency and Market Quality" awarded outstanding paper in investments award.
  • 2014. Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences (KNAW). Nominated as Young Researcher at the 5th Lindau Nobel Prize Meeting in Economics.
  • 2013. C. Willems Stichting grant (€1,000) for a visit at the Toulouse School of Economics.
  • 2013. ERIC Doctoral Consortium Stuttgart.  Paper "Need for Speed? Exchange Latency and Market Quality" awarded runner-up PhD paper award. 
  • 2011. Huygens Scholarship from the Dutch Ministry of Education (€18,600).

​Professional service

  • Ad-hoc referee for The Review of Financial Studies, Management Science,  Journal of Monetary Economics, Review of Finance, Journal of Financial Markets, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Empirical Finance, Journal of Financial Research, Journal of International Money and Finance, Mathematics and Financial Economics.
  • Guest Associate Editor for Information Systems Research (FinTech Issue)
  • Search committee member for Finance at University of Toronto Mississauga (2019) and Paris-Dauphine (2017).
  • Contributor on VoxEU, the policy portal of CEPR and The Conversation (French)