Prof. Thorsten Hens

Thorsten 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. He is on the Steering Committee of the University’s Center for Urban & Real Estate Management (CUREM), and is Adjunct Professor in the Finance Department of the Norwegian School of Economics in Bergen and in the Economics Department of the University of Lucerne.

After completing his PhD at the University of Bonn, Thorsten held positions in Bielefeld, Paris and Stanford. Thorsten runs the project Behavioral Finance for Retail Banking,  is a member of the University of Zurich’s University Research Priority Program Financial Market Regulation (URPP FinReg) and one of the principal researchers in the Sinergia project The Affective and Cognitive Foundations of Successful Decision Making.