Gallen, Switzerland. His research interests lie in the area of hedge funds, mutual funds, empirical asset pricing, and behavioral finance. Florian received his Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Mannheim in 2013 and was a visiting scholar at the University of Texas at Austin, Georgia State University, and Georgetown University. He has published scientific articles, among others, in the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Finance, and the Journal of Financial & Quantitative Analysis.