DrVassilios Papavassiliou

Dr. Vassilios Papavassiliou is Assistant Professor of Finance at the UCD College of Business and a Fellow at the UCD Geary Institute for Public Policy. He earned his PhD in Finance from Queen's University of Belfast, United Kingdom. His research interests span the areas of market microstructure, high-frequency finance, liquidity, bond markets, financial contagion, FinTech, and banking and risk management. His work has been published in international refereed journals, such as the Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Energy Economics, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money and the European Journal of Finance. He is an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Finance & Economics. He also serves as an Executive Committee Member of the European Economics and Finance Society (EEFS).

He has been a funded Research Fellow at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), and a funded Visiting Scholar at the Bank of Finland, Esade Business School, ESCP Business School, EM Normandie Business School, and University of Coimbra. He also holds a Research Fellowship at the Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis (RCEA).

Dr. Papavassiliou is the Banking & Finance Subject Area Head of Teaching and Learning at the UCD College of Business and a Member of the College Teaching and Learning Committee. He is the Academic Programme Director of the MSc in Sustainable Finance and a Member of the Graduate School of Business Taught Programmes Board. He also serves as the Academic Coordinator of UCD’s undergraduate and postgraduate overseas programmes in Banking & Finance. He served as a Programme External Examiner at Cardiff University and University College Cork from 2022 to 2026. 

As a teacher, he has extensive experience of course design and development. He currently lectures in International Finance at undergraduate and MSc levels. He is a two-time recipient of a UCD College of Business Teaching Excellence Award, receiving the honour in both 2022 and 2025. 

Dr. Papavassiliou brings extensive hands-on experience across various investment banking roles.