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Dr. Arash Aloosh

Arash Aloosh is a FinTech and Sustainability Professor at DCU Business School. Hecompleted his PhD in Finance in 2016 at BI Norwegian Business School and was a visiting scholar for two years at Columbia Business School in New York.


His research contributions have been featured in the Journal of Finance, Management Science, Nature, and Lancet, among others. Arash teaches courses on both conventional subjects, like Financial Markets and Derivative and emerging subjects like FinTech for Sustainability. In 2019, he received the Teaching Excellence Award in acknowledgment of his dedication to students. His academic services were lauded with the Best Public Dissemination Award in 2022.

Arash currently serves as a Steering Committee member at the National Centre of Excellence in Research in Financial Technologies (NCER-FT) under the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR). Additionally, he is a research associate at the Cartes Bancaires-La Banque Postale Chair in Digital Finance at Université Paris II and Telecom Paris, and is also a research affiliate at the Cardiff Fintech Research Group at Cardiff University. Furthermore, Arash serves as the Editor of the "Social Media and Finance" area within Elsevier's Research in International Business and Finance.

Research Interests

International Finance; Forensic Finance; FinTech; Social Media and Finance.

Teaching Interests

Disruptive finance: FinTech for sustainability, decentralized finance (DeFi), and crypto markets

Conventional finance: corporate finance, corporate valuations, and derivatives

Sustainable Development Goals