• EH14 4AS

    United Kingdom

Accepting PhD Students

20162024

Research activity per year

Personal profile

Biography

Andrea is currently an Associate Professor of Finance at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK since August 2023, having joined Heriot-Watt University in May 2016 as an Assistant Professor. Her research focuses primarily on risk contagion, endogenous risk, financial crises, bank regulation, micro-loans, and green (sustainable) growth.

Andrea received a PhD in Finance from the University of Southampton, UK in 2015. Before this, Andrea was awarded a BSc in Economics in 2007 from Edutus College (MÜTF)  Budapest, Hungary, an MA in European Economy and Management from Abertay University, Dundee in 2008, and an MSc in International Finance in 2010 from the University of Dundee, Scotland.

Research interests

Interbank contagion, systemic risk, green growth

Financial bubbles and the role of endogenous risk

Applied econometrics 

Bayesian modelling

Natural Language Processing

Machine learning 

 

Taking on PhD Students.

Roles & Responsibilities

Member of the REF C17 team, responsible for Research Culture since December 2024

Finance PhD Lead since 2022

Chair of the Board of Programme Directors for Finance between 2022-2023

Undergraduate Programme Director for Finance programmes between 2019-2022

Centre for Social and Economic Data Analytics co-Lead between 2021-2023

Member of the Athena Swan self-assessment team between 2017-2022.

 

Module coordinator for:

Banking since 2023

Applied Financial Modelling in Python since 2021

International Banking and Money Markets (postgraduate) between 2016-2021

International Banking Institutions and Regulatory Frameworks (postgraduate) between 2016-2021

Capital Markets (postgraduate) between 2018-2019

Research Methods (undergraduate) between 2020-2021

 

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 5 - Gender Equality
  • SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
  • SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
  • SDG 13 - Climate Action
  • SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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