Fabrizio Core joined the Finance Group in the Department of Business Economics of the Erasmus School of Economics in September 2020 as an Assistant Professor of Finance. Prior to joining ESE, he obtained his PhD in Finance from the London School of Economics and Political Sciences in June 2020. Dr. Core’s research interests lie in the fields of entrepreneurship, banking, and more broadly empirical corporate finance. He is currently doing research on gender and entrepreneurship, as well as on the government support programs for SMEs in Italy.