University of Twente

General Description

The University of Twente (UT), located in Enschede, is the most entrepreneurial and leading technical university in the Netherlands, with a total of 17,000 in staff and students, and 1,200 PhD students enrolled in 120 PhD programs (department level). The department of High-Tech Business and Entrepreneurship (HBE) hosts 50+ academic staff and is involved in various educational programs and (inter)national research projects.

Research: Applications of AI in Finance are recurrent topics approached in seminar series and research proposals;

Training: Risk management in finance, cybersecurity in fintech and machine learning in finance will be taught to doctoral students; Running 10 doctoral schools and 25 doctoral training courses per year.

Industry cooperation: HBE collaborates closely with many Dutch companies, e.g. ING in the context of a joint professorship position

People

Prof. Dr. Jos van Hillegersberg (10%). Academic Director Jheronimus Academy of Data Science. Publications: 284 journal papers, H-index: 35, Citations: 6547. Projects: 30+ industrial projects and grants. PhD (co-) supervision: 90 students. Taught at more than 15 doctoral schools, including industry applied training. Expertise: Business Information Systems. Role: Supervisory Board member, supervision of ESR 1.

Prof. Dr. Joerg Osterrieder (70%). Action Chair COST Action CA19130. Publications: 38 journal papers, H-index: 11. Projects: 30+ industrial projects and grants. PhD (co-) supervision: 7 students. 7 years experience in investment banking. Expertise: Capital Markets. Artificial Intelligence in Finance. Role: Project Coordinator, WP 6, 8 lead, supervision of ESRs 3 and 4.

Prof. Dr. Laura Spierdijk (10%). Professor of Financial Engineering and Management and chair of the Financial Engineering section within the department of High-tech Business and Entrepreneurship at the University of Twente. Publications: 49 journal papers and 8 book chapters, H-index: 24, Citations: 3129. PhD supervision: 9 students completed. Expertise: Financial Engineering and Risk Management. Role: Supervisory Board member, supervision of ESR 2.

Prof. Dr. Ir. Martijn Mes (10%). Professor of Transportation and Logistics Management and chair of the Industrial Engineering and Business Information Systems section within the department of High-tech Business and Entrepreneurship at the University of Twente. Publications: 60 journal papers, H-index: 22, Citations: 1586. PhD supervision: 14 students. Expertise: Artificial Intelligence for Logistics Management. Role: Supervisory Board member, contribution to teaching in RL, supervision of ESR 3.

How we contribute to the MSCA:

Project coordinator. WP 6, 8 Lead. Contribute data on crowdfunding, financial time series and ESG scores as well as theoretical and applied expertise in ML modelling, Fintech business models, sustainable finance, blockchain technologies.