I began researching financial statistics after I graduated from ETH Zürich - first as a postdoc, later as an assistant professor at the University of Lugano.Here at the University of St. Gallen, I served as head of the economics department from 2015 to 2017 and was the academic director of the Ph.D. in economics and finance program for over ten years.My research lies at the intersection of computational statistics and financial econometrics. I have worked extensively on developing new models for analyzing univariate and multivariate time series that can handle vast amounts of heterogeneous data. Several of my papers have been published in leading international journals in statistics, econometrics, and finance.