Keynote Speakers

Torben G. Andersen is the Nathan S. and Mary P. Sharp Professor of Finance at the Kellogg School of Management. He joined the faculty in 1991 and he is a Faculty Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), an International Associate of the Center for Research in Energy: Economics and Markets (CoRE) in Aarhus, Denmark, and Research Fellow at the Canadian Derivatives Institute (CDI), Montreal, Canada. In addition, Professor Andersen was elected Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2008, and Fellow of the Society for Financial Econometrics, SoFiE, in 2013, Fellow of the Society for Economic Measurement (SEM) in 2018, Fellow of the International Association for Applied Econometrics (IAAE) in 2020, and Fellow of the Journal of Econometrics in 2021. He served as Chair of the Finance Department for the period 2015-2017. He is currently the President-Elect for the Society of Financial Econometrics (SoFiE), with the Presidential term to start in June 2025.

Marc Steinbach studied Mathematics and Physics at the University of Bonn where he obtained a Diploma in Mathematics. After doing project research at the University of Augsburg and the Technical University of Munich in the areas of trajectory optimization for industrial robots and airplanes, he finished his doctoral studies at the University of Heidelberg with a PhD in Mathematics. Then he moved to Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB) as a postdoctoral researcher and started working on stochastic optimization and optimization in gas and water networks. He also taught at the Technical University of Berlin after obtaining the Habilitation degree there. As a guest professor at University of Applied Sciences of Vorarlberg, he worked in Austria before accepting a permanent position as Professor of Algorithmic Optimization at Leibniz Universität Hannover.