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 Empirical Finance, Annals of Economics and Statistics.
  • 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)