Semyon Malamud is Senior Chair at the Swiss Finance Institute at the EPFL & CEPR and Associate Professor of Finance at the EPFL. He is a Lamfalussy Fellow of the European Central Bank and a winner of the joint INQUIRE Europe/UK research prize.

His research interests include Liquidity and Market Frictions, International Finance, and Macroeconomics. He publishes regularly in leading economics and finance including Econometrica, American Economic Review, the Journal of Financial Economics and the Review of Financial Studies.

The Engelbert-Dockner-Fellowship is sponsored by the POK Pühringer Privatstiftung and enables WU to invite renowned professors to spend an extended period at WU. With this initiative, we are also preserving the memory of Professor Engelbert Dockner, who passed away in 2017. Professor Dockner continuously fostered cutting-edge research and universities' educational mission in the field of capital markets.