Florian Weinlich

Florian com­pleted both his bach­elor’s de­gree in In­ter­na­tional Busi­ness Ad­min­is­tra­tion and his mas­ter’s de­gree in Fin­ance & Ac­count­ing at WU Vi­enna. Dur­ing his bach­elor’s stud­ies, he spent a semester abroad at the Uni­versity of Illinois at Urb­ana-Cham­paign. Fur­ther­more, he holds the Chartered Fin­an­cial Ana­lyst des­ig­na­tion. For several years he worked in in­dustry in cor­por­ate fin­ance and mer­gers & ac­quis­i­tions be­fore re­turn­ing to uni­versity to pur­sue a PhD in Fin­ance.

His re­search in­terests in­clude, among oth­ers, cor­por­ate fin­ance, in­vestor be­ha­vi­our and reach­ing for yield in the bond mar­ket.

Florian likes out­door activ­it­ies such as moun­tain bik­ing, hik­ing and ski­ing.

Edu­ca­tion:

• Since 2021: PhD Stu­dent, Vi­enna Gradu­ate School of Fin­ance (VGSF)

• 2015: MSc in Fin­ance and Ac­count­ing, WU Vi­enna

• 2013: BSc in In­ter­na­tional Busi­ness Ad­min­is­tra­tion, WU Vi­enna