New Research Fellow: Simon Trimborn
Simon Trimborn is an Assistant Professor of Econometrics and Data Science at the Amsterdam School of Economics, University of Amsterdam.
Before joining the University of Amsterdam, he held academic positions at City University of Hong Kong and National University of Singapore following his PhD studies at the Humboldt-University at Berlin (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), where he defended his PhD thesis on the topic of "Statistics of Digital Finance".
His work focuses on high dimensional data analysis for time series data with which he tackles specific problems arising in social media, cryptocurrency, blockchain and finance. These studies appear in journals such as Journal of Financial Econometrics, Journal of Empirical Finance, R Journal, among others. Simon serves on the editorial board of the journals Digital Finance and Annual Review of FinTech, he is part of the Scientific Board of the CRIX index and a member of the AI4FinTech initiative at the University of Amsterdam.