Prof. Thorsten Hens

Thorsten Hens is Swiss Finance Institute Professor of Financial Economics and Member of the Directorate of the Institute for Banking and Finance at the University of Zurich. In addition, he is on the Steering Committee of the Center for Urban & Real Estate Management (CUREM).

After completing his PhD at the University of Bonn, he held positions in Bielefeld, Paris and Stanford. He is also Adjunct Professor in the Finance Department of the Norwegian School of Economics in Bergen and in the Economics Department of the University of Lucerne.

Thorsten Hens runs the SNF project “Behavioral Finance for Retail Banking”, is a member of the URPP “Finreg” and one of the principal researchers in the Sinergia project “The Affective and Cognitive Foundations of Successful Decision Making”.