Fi­nance and Cor­po­rate Gov­er­nance

Aca­d­e­mic CV

Prof. Dr. Peter Lim­bach joined the Uni­ver­sity of Biele­feld in May 2021 as Pro­fes­sor of Fi­nance and Cor­po­rate Gov­er­nance. He holds a Ger­man Diploma (equiv­a­lent to MSc) in eco­nom­ics from the Uni­ver­sity of Bonn and a PhD (Dr. rer. pol.) in fi­nance from the Karl­sruhe In­sti­tute of Tech­nol­ogy (su­per­vi­sors: Mar­tin Ruckes, Werner F.M. De Bondt). He spent sev­eral months at the Rot­ter­dam School of Man­age­ment as a vis­it­ing PhD. After his PhD, Peter was a post­doc­toral re­searcher at the KIT be­fore join­ing the Uni­ver­sity of Cologne as the CFR Junior-​Professor of In­vest­ments in 2016. In 2020, he sub­sti­tuted the Pro­fes­sor­ship Fi­nan­cial Eco­nom­ics (Prof. Dr. Is­abel Schn­abel) at the Uni­ver­sity of Bonn. Peter has con­sid­er­able teach­ing ex­pe­ri­ence at all lev­els, in­clud­ing MBA and PhD courses. He was awarded the Ju­nior Teach­ing Award of the Fac­ulty of Man­age­ment, Eco­nom­ics and So­cial Sci­ences of the Uni­ver­sity of Cologne. Peter is also a re­search fel­low of the Cen­tre for Fi­nan­cial Re­search (CFR), Cologne. His re­search pa­pers have been pub­lished in lead­ing sci­en­tific jour­nals – in­clud­ing Man­age­ment Sci­ence, the Ac­count­ing Re­view, the Jour­nal of Fi­nan­cial and Quan­ti­ta­tive Analy­sis, and the Jour­nal of Cor­po­rate Fi­nance – and have been ac­cepted for pre­sen­ta­tion at top aca­d­e­mic con­fer­ences, such as the an­nual meet­ings of the West­ern Fi­nance As­so­ci­a­tion and the Fi­nan­cial In­ter­me­di­a­tion Re­search So­ci­ety. Peter also or­ga­nizes one of Eu­rope’s lead­ing vir­tual re­search sem­i­nars. Since 2022, Peter serves as co-​editor of Man­age­ment Re­view Quar­terly.