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. Assistant Professor of Finance.
    • ​Cross-appointed at Rotman School of Management and Institute for Management and Innovation
  • 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

  • 2021. ERMAS Association Prize. Paper "The Value of ETF Liquidity" receives Best Paper award at ERMAS 2021 (Romanian AFA).
  • 2021. Federation of European Exchanges. Runner-up for Josseph de la Vega Prize, annual award for "outstanding research on securities markets in Europe." (w/ Michael Brolley, for work on micro-burst fees on fast exchanges).
  • 2020. Southern Finance Association (SFA).  Paper "Crowded Analyst Coverage" receives Outstanding Paper in Investments award.
  • 2020. SSHRC Insight Development Grant (principal investigator; co-applicant Charles Martineau, $49,027) for the Technology and Information Supply in Modern Financial Markets project.
  • 2019. Connaught New Researcher Award ($20,000) for the 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 the Robo-Advisors: Delegated Asset Management in the Digital Age ​project.
  • 2018. SSHRC Insight Development Grant (co-applicant w/ Mariana Khapko, $41,179) for the 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." (w/ Marlene Haas, for work on high-frequency batch auctions).
  • 2014. Eastern Finance Association (EFA).  Paper "Need for Speed? Exchange Latency and Market Quality" receives 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, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 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).
  • PhD Committee member for Noemie Bucourt (Rotman)
  • Jury member for FESE De La Vega Prize for "outstanding research on securities markets in Europe" (2017-2019).
  • Program Committee member for Northern Finance Association (2016-now), Paris December Finance Meeting (2020-now), Southern Finance Association (2020-now), Dauphine PhD Finance Workshop (2020-now).
  • External grant reviewer for Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong.
  • Formal positions on markets regulation:  SEC Comment on the IEX's D-Limit Order Proposal (January 2020)
  • Contributor on VoxEU, the policy portal of CEPR and The Conversation (French)