Stathis Tompaidis

Stathis Tompaidis is a professor at the Information, Risk and Operations Management department, and the department of Finance at the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin. After finishing his undergraduate studies at Aristotle’s University of Thessaloniki in Greece, he received his Ph.D. in Physics from The University of Texas at Austin in 1994. He has also held positions at Université de Rennes I, and the University of Toronto, and visiting positions at Columbia University, Duke University, the Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico (ITAM), and Northwestern University. His research focuses on the development of quantitative methods for solving complex business problems, especially in the areas of risk management, derivative pricing, asset allocation, energy finance, real estate finance, and real options. He has collaborated with companies such as Schlumberger, Shell, and ElectroPeru. His research has appeared in journals such as Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Operations Research, and Management Science.