Marius Zoican

Marius Zoican is an Assistant Professor of Finance (on tenure track) at the University of Toronto, Mississauga since 2018. He is cross-appointed at the Rotman School of Management and the Institute for Management and Innovation. Before joining the University of Toronto, Marius was an Assistant Professor of Finance at Paris-Dauphine University in France between 2015 and 2018.

Marius’ research agenda focuses on theoretical and empirical market microstructure, and particularly on the impact of technology on the quality of securities exchanges and financial market regulation.

His research was published in, for example, The Review of Financial Studies, Management Science, or Journal of Financial Markets. Marius obtained academic grants for work in the field of financial technology, e.g., from the Canadian Securities Institute, the French National Research Agency (ANR), and the Europlace Institute of Finance. He received several awards, including the Federation of European Securities Exchanges "De la Vega Award" (2016) for outstanding research in financial markets.

Research interests:

• Market microstructure
  
• Financial technology (FinTech)
  
• Delegated asset management
  

Experience

• Assistant Professor of Finance
  University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management

• Assistant Professor of Finance
  University of Toronto Mississauga

• Assistant Professor
  Université Paris-Dauphine

• PhD Student in Financial Economics
  Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

• Visiting PhD Researcher
  Toulouse School of Economics

• Research Assistant (Market Microstructure)
  Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

• Teaching Assistant, Financial Derivatives (Graduate)
  Erasmus University Rotterdam

Education

• VU University Amsterdam
  Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Financial Economics

• Tinbergen Institute
  MPhil Finance, Finance, 9.03

• Academia de Studii Economice din București
  BSc, Banking and Finance, 9.84

• University of Reading
  Visiting Student (BSc), Banking, Finance