Dr Lei Zhang
Associate Professor
Department of Economics
and Finance
Dr Lei Zhang received a PhD degree from
INSEAD, and his Bachelor's and Master's
degrees from Fudan University. His
research interests include credit markets,
institutional investors, risk management,
and financial intermediaries. He has
published papers in leading academic
journals including Journal of Financial
Economics, Journal of Monetary
Economics, Management Science, Journal
of International Business Studies, Journal
of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, etc.
Dr Christopher Michael Rigsby
Assistant Professor
Department of Accountancy
Dr Rigsby earned a PhD in Accounting
Information and Management from
Northwestern University, an MSc in
Geophysics from Saint Louis University, and
a BSc in Applied Mathematics and Creative
Writing from Fontbonne University. His
research focuses on debt contracting,
bankruptcy, M&A, and disclosure. As a
teacher, he hopes to demonstrate the
role of accounting in understanding the
economics of companies. Fostering passion
for accounting and preparing students for
the next stage of their development are
his priorities.
Dr Qing Liu
Assistant Professor
Department of
Economics and Finance
Dr Qing Liu obtained her PhD in
Mathematical Finance at Boston
University. In her research, she aims
to take some small but significant
steps in better understanding how
contracts function in the world, as
against the idealised setting of the
existing principal-agent literature. She is
especially interested in settings such as
entrepreneurship and venture capital.
Dr Zhengyang Xu
Assistant Professor
Department of
Economics and Finance
Dr Zhengyang Xu received his PhD in
Finance from the Ross School of Business,
University of Michigan. His research
interests broadly lie in asset pricing,
investor behaviour, and learning.
Dr Yongjin Park
Assistant Professor
Department of
Information Systems
Dr Yongjin Park earned his PhD in
Management Engineering (with a major
in Information Systems) from Korea
Advanced Institute of Science and
Technology and a BSc in Industrial and
Management Engineering from Pohang
University of Science and Technology.
His research focuses on e-business,
economics of information systems, and
societal impact of information technology.
Dr Youjin Kim
Assistant Professor
Department of
Management
Dr Youjin Kim received her PhD from
Michigan State University. Her primary
research interests include organisational
citizenship behaviour, motives, proactive
behaviour and emotion in the workplace.
Her research has been published in
the Academy of Management Journal,
Organizational Behavior and Human
Decision Processes, and Journal of
Organizational Behavior, and Human
Performance, etc.
Dr Simon Trimborn
Assistant Professor
Department of
Management Sciences
Dr Simon Trimborn conducted his PhD
studies at the Humboldt-University of
Berlin and was subsequently employed
as a Research Fellow at the National
University of Singapore. His work focuses
on high dimensional data analysis for time
series data with which he tackles specific
problems of the cryptocurrency market
and blockchain from an econometric and
statistical point of view.
