Gallen. Formerly, he was a research associate at the Chair of Finance and Financial Services, Faculty of Business and Economics, Technische Universität Dresden from which he received a B.Sc. (2010) and M.Sc. (2013) in Industrial Engineering and Management and a PhD (2017) in Business & Economics. He has been a visiting researcher at International University HCMC, School of Business (2016) and John von Neumann Institute, HCMC (2017). His research focuses on energy & commodity finance, international finance, and financial econometrics with applications to risk management. His articles are published in refereed journals such as Energy Economics, Finance Research Letters, Pacific Accounting Review, and Research in International Business and Finance.