ProfessorCal Muckley

Cal is Professor of Operational Risk in the Banking and Finance area at the UCD College of Business and a Fellow at the UCD Geary Institute.

His main research focus lies in the intersection of financial services and machine learning, with a specific interest in financial misconduct, customer vulnerability and mitigating financial fraud. He has published in scholarly journals including the Journal of Corporate Finance, the Journal of Econometrics and the Journal of Empirical Finance. 

Previously he has worked as a lecturer in finance at the Department of Economics and Finance, Durham Business School. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from Trinity College Dublin. He has been a Visiting Scholar at New York University Stern School of Business, Yale University, at Groningen and Tilburg Universities in the Netherlands, at ESC Rennes School of Business in France, at Freiburg University and at the London School of Economics. 

He is a Fulbright Scholar and he has also received other awards and fellowships. These include a Thomas Moran Fellowship from the Mutual of America Life Insurance, a UCD Early Career Research Award, a UCD Research Impact Award and the Barrington Medal from the Statistical & Social Inquiry Society. His work has been widely reported in the media, including in the Huffington Post and the Wall Street Journal, and in policy papers at the European Central Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the OECD and the United Nations.

Across the undergraduate, executive and graduate levels, he has lectured in areas of corporate finance, financial econometrics, machine learning and financial theory. He has been awarded a UCD College of Business University Teaching Excellence Award in 2024. Cal engages directly with organisations in the finance sector to offer bespoke research and training. 

His administrative duties have included the role of Academic Director of the B.Sc. in Economics & Finance programme at the Quinn School of Business, UCD and Academic Director of the MBA programmes at Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, UCD. He is a member of the UCD Academic Council, a member of the University's Risk Management Advisory Committee and previously was a member of the Academic Council Committee on Honorary Degrees and Major Awards and the UCD Smurfit School Business Journalist Awards adjudicating panel. He also leads teams of researchers via work packages funded by Science Foundation Ireland, Enterprise Ireland, European Funding Agencies and industry collaborators.