Atreya Dey

Atreya Dey

PhD Candidate in Financial Technology

University of Edinburgh Business School

About Me

I am a PhD candidate in Financial Technology at the University of Edinburgh Business School and will be on the 2024-2025 job market. My research focuses on how evolving climatic patterns impact financial markets and corporate dynamics, with a particular interest in applying geospatial climate and environmental data.

I am a visiting scholar at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University for the Fall 2024 semester. I will also present at the PRI Academic Conference in Toronto from October 7th to 10th and the American Finance Association from January 3rd to 5th. Say hi if you see me!

Interests

  • Climate Finance
  • Empirical Asset Pricing
  • Spatial Finance
  • Machine Learning and NLP

Education

  • PhD in Financial Technology, Expected 2025

    University of Edinburgh Business School

  • MSc in Data Science, 2019

    Northwestern University

  • BA in Economics (major) and Math (minor), 2015

    Haverford College

Presentations & Conference Talks

Professional activities & recognition

Best PhD Paper Award

AFA Travel Grant

EFA Travel Grant

World Class Workshop in Finance

I obtained a £1,500 bursary to organize a workshop around presentations from scholars such as Raman Uppal and Philipp Krüger.

$4,000 grant to purchase data

Baillie Gifford Ph.D. Scholarship in Financial Technology