University of Turku / Turku School of Economics Finance Team consists of the following people.

Professors

Luis Alvarez Esteban (see also LinkedIn, Orcid, Google Scholar, and RePEc)

Mika Vaihekoski (see also LinkedIn, Publons, Orcid, RePEc, and SSRN).

Kim Ristolainen (assistant professor, tenure track, 1.1.2026-)

University teachers

Marko Voutilainen

Visa Kuntze

Post-doc researchers

Abu Chowdhury (moved to BRAC University in 2024)

Nam Vu (Biodiversity Unit of the University of Turku)

Habeeb Yahya

Docents 

Jan Antell (Associate Professor, Hanken School of Economics)

Doctoral researchers

Valtteri Peltonen

Md Khaled Hossain Rafi

Ville Kaukonen

Yufeng Ding

Prokash Chandro

Ville Kukkonen

 

From left to right: Marko Voutilainen, Syed Riaz Ali, Mika Vaihekoski, Luis Alvarez Esteban, Habeeb Yahya, Valtteri Peltonen (taken in August 2022).

Graduated doctors

Habeeb Yahya (2024), thesis title “ESG and Financial Performance of Firms. Nordic Evidence” (link to dissertation). Placement after graduation: Academia.

Mika Hannula (2020), thesis titled “Essays on Strategic Trading” (link to dissertation). Placement after graduation: Industry.

Matti Heikkonen (2018), thesis titled “Essays on latent factor models in finance” in Quantitative Methods in Management (link to dissertation). Placement after graduation: Industry.

Joonas Hämäläinen (2015), thesis titled “Portfolio selection under directional predictability” (link to dissertation). Placement after graduation: Industry.