Florian Kiesel is Professor of Corporate Finance and has been at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano since 2022. 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 the Journal of Corporate Finance, the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, and the Journal of Banking & Finance. In 2022 and 2024, he was listed among the Top 50 young scholars in business administration in the German-speaking countries of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.