Prof. Dr. Erik Theissen (contract professor)

Erik Theissen has been a contract professor of finance at the University of Graz since 2015. His main position is as professor of finance at the University of Mannheim. He previously worked at the University of Bonn and Goethe University Frankfurt, where he obtained his doctorate in 1997 and his habilitation in 2001. From 1999 to 2000, he spent a year at HEC in France.

Erik Theissen's research focuses primarily on empirical and experimental capital market research, with an emphasis on securities trading, asset pricing and cryptocurrencies. He is a member of the Stock Exchange Expert Commission at the Federal Ministry of Finance in Germany and Associate Editor of the Journal of Behavioural and Experimental Finance. He regularly presents his research findings at leading international conferences.