Visiting Scholars

The visiting scholar program extends specified courtesy titles and privileges to scholars of distinction who visit Stern to engage in research and scholarship. Visiting scholars are considered guests of the university who may visit for a temporary period of up to one year (renewable). Privileges include participating in colloquia, auditing classes, consulting members of the faculty, and using the university libraries.

The Visiting Scholars program is highly selective, and to apply, you must have sponsorship from an Accounting Department faculty member. The visiting scholar application can be found here.

Please note: The standard application processing time is approximately 4-6 weeks following department approval. If visa sponsorship is required, an additional 3 months are required for the visa application process.

 

Visiting Scholars for the 2026-2027 Academic Year:

 

Visiting Scholar

 

Serkan Özdemir / sfo215@stern.nyu.edu

  • Office 10-98
  • Affiliation: Ankara University
  • Sponsoring Faculty: Joshua Ronen
  • Appointment: September 1, 2026 - August 31, 2027
  • Research Interests: Financial accounting, sustainability reporting, banking regulation, and financial performance analysis

 

 

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Jing Chen / jc3926@stern.nyu.edu

  • Office: 10-98
  • Affiliation: Stevens Institute of Technology
  • Sponsoring Faculty: Yiwei Dou
  • Appointment: September 1, 2026 - May 31, 2027
  • Research Interests: Archival disclosure

 

 

 

 

Former Visiting Scholars

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Tim Baldenius 

  • Affiliation: Columbia University
  • Sponsoring Faculty: Xiaojing Meng
  • Appointment Dates: May 10, 2025 - May 9, 2026
  • Research Interests: Analytical research in accounting and corporate governance

Tuba Toksöz 

  • Affiliation: Koç University
  • Sponsoring Faculty: Joshua Ronen
  • Appointment Dates: August 4, 2025 - September 4, 2025
  • Research Interests: Impact of accounting rules and regulations, financial institutions, earnings management, fair value accounting, auditing, corporate governance, and capital Markets 

Serkan Özdemir

  • Affiliation: Ankara University
  • Sponsoring Faculty: Joshua Ronen
  • Appointment: September 1, 2025 - August 31, 2026
  • Research Interests: Financial accounting, sustainability reporting, banking regulation, and financial performance analysis

 

Tim Baldenius

  • Affiliation: Columbia University
  • Sponsoring Faculty: Xiaojing Meng
  • Appointment Dates: May 5, 2025 - May 4, 2026
  • Research Interests: Analytical research in accounting and corporate governance

 

Tuba Toksöz

  • Affiliation: Koç University
  • Sponsoring Faculty: Joshua Ronen
  • Appointment Dates: August 4, 2025 - September 4, 2025
  • Research Interests: Impact of accounting rules and regulations, financial institutions, earnings management, fair value accounting, auditing, corporate governance, and capital Markets 

     

Serkan Özdemir

  • Affiliation: Ankara University
  • Sponsoring Faculty: Joshua Ronen
  • Appointment: September 1, 2024 - August 31, 2025
  • Research Interests: Financial accounting, sustainability reporting, banking regulation, and financial performance analysis

 

Antonella Russo

  • Affiliation: University of Greenwich
  • Sponsoring Faculty: Joshua Ronen
  • Appointment Dates: July 21, 2025 - August 21, 2025
  • Research Interests: Earnings management, corporate governance, diversity, and sustainability

 

Massimiliano Bonacchi  

  • Affiliation: University of Bolzano
  • Sponsoring Faculty: Ilan Guttman
  • Appointment: September 14, 2024 - October 5, 2024
  • Research Interests: Private firm 

 

 Barbara Seitz

  • Affiliation: University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
  • Research area: Financial Reporting by Banks and Reporting for Financial Instruments
  • Faculty Sponsor: Stephen Ryan

Qiuhong Zhao

  • Affiliation: Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
  • Faculty Sponsor: Stephen Ryan

Francesco Reggiani

  • Affiliation: University of Zurich
  • Faculty Sponsor: Stephen Ryan

DongJoon Han

  • Affiliation: The Chinese University of Hong Kong
  • Research area: Accounting Theory and Corporate Finance
  • Faculty Sponsor: Tim Baldenius

Massimiliano Bonacchi

  • Affiliation: University of Bolzano
  • Faculty Sponsor: Paul Zarowin

Swati Kanoria

  • Affiliation: University of Warwick
  • Research area: Hedge Fund Activism, Executive Compensation, Banking and Risk, Incentives, Information Asymmetry, and Corporate Governance 
  • Faculty Sponsor: April Klein

Morten Jensen

  • Affiliation: Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
  • Research area: Financial Accounting 
  • Faculty Sponsor: Stephen Ryan

Catalin Starica

  • Affiliation: University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
  • Faculty Sponsor: Paul Zarowin

Aikaterini Ferentinou

  • Affiliation: University of Graz, Austria
  • Research area: Long-term debt contracts
  • Faculty Sponsor: Tim Baldenius

Raffaele Manini

  • Affiliation: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
  • Faculty Sponsor: Baruch Lev

Alfredo Antonino Scarfo

  • Affiliation: University of Pisa, Italy
  • Research area: Corporate Finance, Mergers and Acquisitions, Intangibles
  • Faculty Sponsor: Paul Zarowin

Minlei Ye

  • Affiliation: University of Toronto
  • Research area: Economics of Auditing; Financial accounting research on disclosure, manager discretion, and the effect of regulation on capital markets
  • Faculty Sponsor: Tim Baldenius

Yazhou He (Ellen)

  • Affiliation: University of Warwick, UK
  • Research area: Corporate governance, corporate finance, behavioral finance, capital market research, equity valuation
  • Faculty Sponsor: April Klein

Evgeny Petrov

  • Affiliation: Swiss Finance Institute at Swiss Federal
  • Research area: Voluntary Disclosure, Asymmetric Information, Financial Intermediation, Contract Theory, General Equilibrium
  • Faculty Sponsor: Ilan Guttman

Ferrari, Mascia

  • Affiliation: University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
  • Research area: Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Faculty Sponsor: Joshua Ronen

Hoffmann, Kira

  • Affiliation: Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
  • Research area: Cost behavior, Financial and managerial accounting
  • Faculty Sponsor: Tim Baldenius

Kukec, Sandra

  • Affiliation: University of Graz Center for Accounting Research
  • Research area: Debt Contracting and Accounting
  • Faculty Sponsor: Tim Baldenius

Bonacchi, Massimiliano

  • Affiliation: University of Napels Parthenope
  • Research area: Financial Reporting Quality of private firms
  • Faculty Sponsor: Paul Zarowin

Kaspereit, Thomas

  • Affiliation: University of Oedenburg
  • Research area: Environmental Disclosure Management
  • Faculty Sponsor: Eli Bartov

Pieirni, Lucia

  • Affiliation: LUISS Guido Carli
  • Research area: Intangible Assets
  • Faculty Sponsor: Baruch Lev

Quan, Xiaofeng

  • Affiliation: Soochow University
  • Research area: Accounting and Corporate Finance
  • Faculty Sponsor: Xiaojing Meng

Dong, Minyue

  • Affiliation: HEC, University of Lausanne
  • Research area: Financial Analysis of banks and other financial services firms
  • Faculty Sponsor: Stephen Ryan

Ferrari, Mascia

  • Affiliation: University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
  • Research area: Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Faculty Sponsor: Joshua Ronen

Allini, Alessandra

  • Affiliation: University of Napels Federico II
  • Research area: Innovations in the Risk Market System
  • Faculty Sponsor: Joshua Ronen

Rossi, F. Manes

  • Affiliation: University of Salerno 
  • Faculty Sponsor: Joshua Ronen