 Prof. Dr. Joerg Osterrieder Action Chair joerg.osterrieder@zhaw.ch |  Prof. Dr. Valerio Potì Action Vice Chair valerio.poti@ucd.ie |
 Prof. Dr. W. Härdle Leader Working Group 1 haerdle@hu-berlin.de |  Prof. Dr. Petre Lameski Leader Working Group 2 petre.lameski@finki.ukim.mk |
 Prof. Dr. Peter Schwendner, Leader Working Group 3 peter.schwendner@zhaw.ch |  Dr. Branka Hadji Misheva Grant Holder hadj@zhaw.ch |
 Prof. Alessia Paccagnini Scientific Communication coordinator alessia.paccagnini@ucd.ie |  Dr. Maria Moloney Informational Privacy Advisor maria.moloney@ucd.ie |
 Prof. Codruta Mare Grant Award Coordinator codruta.mare@econ.ubbcluj.ro |  Prof. Alecsandru Vasile Virtual Network Manager vasile.strat@bbs.ase.ro |
 Prof. Daniele Marazzina Science Communication Co-Coordinator daniele.marazzina@polimi.it |  Prof. David Bevan Vice-Coordinator of Network dbevan@stmartins.edu |
Core Team
Joerg Osterrieder, Valerio Poti, Wolfgang Karl Härdle, Petre Lameski, Schwendner Peter, Ronald Hochreiter, Ania Zalewska, Piotr Wójcik, Andreas Theodorou, Codruta Mare, Enis Kayis, Jana Peliova, Veni Arakelian, Emmanuel Eyiah-Donkor, Branka Hadji Misheva, Ronald Kleverlaan, Alessia Paccagnini, Kristina Sutiene, Galena Pisoni, Vasile Strat, Marcus Wunsch, Codruta Mare, Piotr Kotlarz, Claudia Tarantola, Alessandra Tanda, Daniele Marazzina
Scientific Advisory Board (SAB)
The Scientific Advisory Board of FinAI brings together top scholars to help steer research within the Action in such a way that it is placed at the frontier of the research agenda, while contributing to ensuring its policy, societal and industry significance, and that it meets the highest ethical standards. To this end, research expertise and profiles of the members are diverse, including finance, statistics, econometrics, machine learning/AI, and both industry and policy experience and profile as well as outstanding scientific ones
Coordinator: Professor Valerio Potì, co-Chair of the Action and Professor of Finance at University College Dublin
| Name and surnmame | Position(s) | Areas of expertise |
| Prof. Carol Alexander | Professor of Finance at Sussex and Co-Editor of the Journal of Banking and Finance | Finance, Econometrics, ML/AI, FinTech, DeFi |
| Prof. Joanna Bryson | Professor of Ethics and Technology at the Hertie School Berlin | Ethics in AI, Information Systems |
| Prof. Zehra Cataltepe | Professor, Istanbul Technical University, Faculty of Computer and Informatics, Computer Engineering Dept.; Co-founder, tazi.ai | Insuretech, FinTech, ML/AI |
| Prof. John Cotter | Chair of Quantitative Finance at University College Dublin | Finance, Econometrics, ML/AI, FinTech, DeFi |
| Prof. Wolfgang Hardle | Ladislaus von Bortkiewicz Professor of Statistics, Center for Applied Statistics and Economics, Humboldt University Berlin | Statistics, Econometrics, ML/AI, FinTech |
| Prof. Campbell Harvey | Professor of Finance at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Finance, Econometrics, ML/AI, FinTech, DeFi |
| Prof. Ali Hirsa | Professor of Professional Practice and Co-Director of Financial Engineering within the Industrial Engineering and Operations Research department of Columbia University, Managing Partner at Sauma Capital | Finance, ML/AI |
| Prof. David Maimon | Associate professor and Next Generation Scholar in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies’ Department of Criminal Justice & Criminology, directs the Evidence-based Cybersecurity Research Group at Georgia State University | Cybersecurity, FinTech |
| Prof. Akhtar Siddique | Deputy Director of the Risk Capital Unit at the US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and Adjunct professor of Banking & Finance at University College Dublin | Finance, Econometrics, ML/AI, FinTech, DeFi |
| Prof. Elena Stanghellini | Chair of Statistics, University of Perugia | Statistics, ML/AI |
| Prof. Manuela Veloso | Herbert A. Simon University Professor on leave at J.P.Morgan AI Research | FinTech, ML/AI, De-Fi |
