THORSTEN HENS born in Germany 1961, is SFI Professor
of Financial Economics at the University of Zurich's Swiss
Banking Institute, a Fellow of CEPR and Adjunct Professor of
Finance at the Norwegian Business School in Bergen. He
studied at Bonn and Paris and held Professorships in Stanford, Bielefeld and
Zurich. Since 2007 he has been the Director of the Swiss Banking Institute and since 2003 the
scientific coordinator of NCCR-Finrisk. His research areas are - among others - behavioural
and evolutionary finance. Thorsten Hens is ranked among the top 10 economics professors in the
German spoken area (Germany, Switzerland and Austria). In researching how investors make their
decisions, Professor Hens draws on work in psychology and applies insights from biology in
order to understand the dynamics of financial markets. His consulting experience includes
application of behavioural finance for private banking and evolutionary finance for asset
management.
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KREMENA BACHMANN born in Bulgaria in 1976, currently
holds a postdoctoral position at the University of Zürich's Swiss
Banking Institute. She received an MS in Finance from the
University of St. Gallen (HSG) and a PhD in Finance from the
University of Zurich, where she held a research position at the Institute for
Empirical Research in Economics. Kremena's research interests include behavioural finance and
investment management. Her teaching experience includes lectures on behavioural
finance and wealth management at the University of Zurich and the Swiss Training Centre for
Investment Professionals (AZEK).
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