Education: MSc - Staff

Staff of the MSc programme

Selected staff members of the departments of Finance group, Accounting group and the Economics department teach the Master Programme. All instructors have outstanding educational and scientific track records. 

For a list with contact information of the members below, as well as those staff members involved with the courses and electives or supervising students their thesis, please click here. For each staff member’s personal website please click their photograph.

Prof. Dr. Han T. J. Smit holds the HAL chair in Private Equity. He publishes extensively on valuation in the academic literature and has excellent relations with private equity houses. His latest book “Strategic Investment”, published with Princeton University Press, won several awards and is becoming an international classic in the field of real options.

Prof. Dr. Ingolf Dittman is Associate Professor in Corporate Finance and specializes in executive compensation and valuation. His research is at the forefront of Corporate Finance and published in leading international journals, including the Journal of Econometrics and the Journal of Finance.

Dr. Sebastian Gryglewicz is an Assistant Professor of Corporate Finance at the Erasmus School of Economics. He obtained both his M.S. in Mathematical Economics and Econometric Methods and Ph.D. in Economics at Tilburg University. His research interests focus on dynamic corporate finance and in particular on investment and financing policies, effects of competition, financial distress and agency conflicts.

Dr. Ir. Martin Martens is Associate Professor at the Department of Finance. His scientific work varies from predicting financial volatility and correlations between stock markets, to index-futures arbitrage and market microstructure. Four days a week he works as a senior researcher for the Quantitative Strategies group at Robeco Asset Management, where he is responsible for research on exchange rates, trading and portfolio construction.

Dr. Agnieszka Markiewicz is Assistant Professor of Finance. In December 2008, she obtained her PhD at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven entitled Essays in Exchange Rate Economics. Accordingly, her research expertise is mainly related to the exchange rate economics. More precisely, she works on exchange rate expectations, the exchange rate determination, and the relation between monetary policy and the exchange rate dynamics.

Dr. Philippe Versijp is Assistant Professor of quantitative and empirical Finance. His research interests include development of new methodologies in Asset Pricing, Stochastic Dominance and non-linear utility specifications. Part of his work is published in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. His teaching in the master focusses on the relation between risk and return.

Dr. Dave J.C. Smant teaches and has published on a variety of subjects such as monetary policy, financial markets, and money, credit, and banking.

Dr Onno W. Steenbeek is a senior strategist at ABP Pension Fund, where he is responsible for developing coherent long-term views on international capital markets.

Dr. Remco C.J. Zwinkels is assistant professor in international finance at the Erasmus School of Economics. He holds an MSc from the Erasmus University, MPhil from the Tinbergen Institute and a PhD from the Radboud University Nijmegen. His research interests generally consist of empirical finance, with a specific focus on behavioral topics. Remco’s teaching currently comprise of risk management, and behavioral finance.