This fall, PHBS welcomed 13 outstanding scholars. Among them are both established scholars and rising stars full of passion and potential. Their joining will further enhance the faculty's strength in teaching and research in fields such as economics, finance, and management.
Associate Professors
Zhu Guozhong
Tenured Associate Professor of Finance
Education:
Ph.D. in Economics, University of Texas at Austin, 2009
M.S.in Mathematics, Texas A&M University, 2004
M.S.in Finance, Texas A&M University, 2003
B.A.in Economics, Fudan University, 1998
Research Interests:
Household finance, macroeconomics, real estate, and urban economics
Stephan Gerschewski
Associate Professor of Management (UK Campus)
Education:
Ph.D.in International Business, Victoria University of Wellington, 2011
M.A. in International Business, Victoria University of Wellington, 2007
B.A. in International Business Management, Furtwangen University, 2004
Research Interests:
International Business, International Entrepreneurship, and Cross-cultural Management
Liao Shushu
Associate Professor of Finance (UK Campus)
Education:
Ph.D. in Finance, Lancaster University, 2019
M.S. in Finance, Imperial College London, 2013
B.A. in Financial Management, Sun Yat-sen University, 2012
Research Interests:
Empirical Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance, Board Diversity, CEO Characteristics,
Financial Stability, Dynamic Modeling in Corporate Finance, Interactions between Investment and Financing Decisions, Finance and Labor
*She will offcially join PHBS in November
Assistant Professors
Feng Jian
Assistant Professor of Finance
Education:
Ph.D. in Finance, The University of Hong Kong, 2025
M.S. in Finance, Renmin University of China, 2021
B.S. in Financial Engineering/B.A. in German, Renmin University of China, 2018
Research Interests:
Empirical asset pricing, behavioral finance, and applied econometrics
Hyungsoo Lim
Assistant Professor of Management
Education:
Ph. D. in Management Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 2017
M.S. in Management Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 2011
B.S.in Management Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 2009
Research Interests:
Business Insights through Text, User Interactions, Social Media, and Multi-channel Dynamics
Liu Chaoran
Assistant Professor of Management (UK Campus)
Education:
Ph.D. in Marketing, London Business School, 2025
M.S. in Marketing, Columbia Business School, 2013
B.A. in Finance, Peking University, 2012
B.A. in Arts (Double major), Peking University, 2012
Research Interests:
Digital Marketing, Emerging Technology, Generative AI, Blockchain, and Entrepreneurship
Liu Jizhou
Assistant Professor of Economics
Education:
Ph.D. in Econometrics and Statistics, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, 2024
M.S. in Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University, 2020
MPhil Economic Research, University of Cambridge, 2018
B.A. in Economics, Peking University, 2017 B.A. Farsi, Beijing Foreign Studies University, 2017
Research Interests:
Econometrics, Causal Inference, Design and Analysis of Randomized Experiments, Reinforcement Learning
Dario Alberto Romero Fonseca
Assistant Professor of Economics
Education
Ph. D.in Economics, Columbia University, 2022,
M.A. in Economics, Universidad de los Audes, 2012
B.A. in Political Science, Universidad de los Audes, 2010
B.A. in Economics, Universidad de los Audes, 2010,
Research Interests:
Education and Labor Economics, Development Economics, Political Economy, andEconomic History
Sun Yu
Assistant Professor of Finance
Education:
Ph.D. in Systems Engineering and Engineering Management (Financial Engineering track), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2022
B.Sc. in Physics, Beijing Normal University, 2017
Research Interests:
Behavioral Finance and Economics, Portfolio Selection, Financial Technology, and Stochastic Control
Wu Fan
Assistant Professor of Economics
Education:
Ph.D., Economics, California Institute of Technology, 2025
M.S., Finance, Tsinghua University, 2019
B.S., Physics, Peking University, 2017
Research Interests:
Microeconomic Theory: information acquisition, information design, and mechanism design
Xu Yiming
Assistant Professor of Finance
Education:
Ph.D. in Economics, Cambridge University, 2023
M.A. in Economics, Columbia University, 2017
Bachelor of Economics and Finance, University of Hong Kong, 2016
Research Interests:
Macro Finance and Asset Pricing
Zhao Yue
Assistant Professor of Management
Education:
Ph.D. in Operations Research, National University of Singapore, 2022
B.S. in Statistics, Nanjing University, 2017
Research Interests:
Data-driven optimization and robust analytics, Analytics for social good, Supply chain and logistics
Zheng Jiaqi
Assistant Professor of Finance
Education
Ph.D. in Finance, University of Oxford, 2025
M.S. in Economics (Finance Track), VU Amsterdam and Tinbergen Institute, 2019
MEng in Transportation Engineering, Tongji University, 2017
Research Interests:
Corporate Governance and Corporate Finance
An exceptional faculty team is the cornerstone for PHBS to achieve ever-increasing excellence. As of September 2025, the total number of full-time faculty members at the school has reached 80, with over 97% of them having obtained their doctoral degrees from world-class universities. Foreign faculty members from countries such as the United States, South Korea, and Italy account for 20% of the total.
⟡Chinese names are in traditional order: family name, then given name
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