Florian Kiesel is Associate Professor in Corporate Finance. He received his doctoral degree in Economics and Finance from the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany. Before joining the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, he was Assistant and Associate Professor at Grenoble Ecole de Management, France, and Visiting Professor at Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen, Germany. His research has been published in international journals, such as Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking and Journal of Banking & Finance. In 2022 and 2024, he was listed on the top 50 young scholars in business administration in the German speaking countries Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.