PHBS Welcomes 13 New Faculty Members
2025-09-19 14:38:39

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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