Profession

Research assistand (postdoc); Lecturer

Research Interests

Investment law; Financial Law; Capital Markets Law; Sustainable Finance; Corporate Law; Corporate Governance; Corporate Social Responsibility; Law and Digitalisation

Employment and academic affiliations

• 2020: Visiting Scholar, Research Group Companies, Markets and Sustainability, University of Oslo (virtual collaboration, research stay postponed to 2021)
• 2018- :Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Lecturer, Chair for Law & Finance, University of Zurich 
• 2017- :Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of commercial law, University of Geneva 
• 2014-2015: Visiting Scholar, Centre for Law and Business, University of California Berkeley 
• 2011-2017: Research and Teaching Assistant to Prof. Rashid Bahar and Prof. Rita Trigo Trindade, Department of commercial law, University of Geneva

Education

• 2018: Ph.D. in Law (summa cum laude), University of Geneva, 
  Dissertation (in French, English summary available on request): ‘L’engagement des investisseurs institutionnels : enjeux et perspectives de la prise de décisions collectives’ (The engagement of institutional investors : risks and perspectives of collective decision-making). Supervisor: Prof. Rashid Bahar
• 2015: Certificate of American Law, University of California Berkeley
• 2011: Certificate of Advanced Studies in Legal Professions, University of Geneva
• 2010: Bilingual Master in Economic Law, University of Geneva and University of Basel
• 2008: Bachelor of Laws, University of Geneva

Awards and Grants

2020:

• Joseph des Arts Prize 2019 for the best PhD dissertation, School of Law, University of Geneva
• Professor Walther Hug Prize 2019 for one of the best PhD dissertations in Switzerland Professor Walther Hug Foundation
• Post-doctoral research fellowship, University of Zurich Research Talent Development Fund Fellowship 
• Joint-Seed Funding for Collaboration in Research and Training, Universities of Zurich and Geneva for organising a seminar series on sustainable finance and regulation
• Funding from the Swiss Academy of social sciences and humanities for organising the annual conference of the Sustainable Finance Research Network at the University of Zurich 

2019:

• Travel Grant, Graduate Campus University of Zurich for a research stay at the University of Oslo

2016:

• Prize ‘Subside Tremplin’, award and mentoring program for young female researchers, University of Geneva

2014:

• Doc.Mobility Grant, Swiss National Science Foundation
• PhD Mobility Grant, Ernst Boninchi Foundation, University of Geneva  
• PhD Mobility Grant, Ernst and Lucie Schmidheiny Foundation 

Teaching and Mentoring

• 2019-2021: Company Law (undergraduate level), University of Zurich (‘Übungen im Handels-und Wirtschaftsrecht‘, in German) 
• 2020-2021: Company Law (undergraduate level): tutoring programme, University of Zurich
• 2020: International Capital Markets Law (graduate level), University of Geneva. Guest lecture on ‘Regulatory Pathways for Sustainable Finance’, November 2020
• 2020: Winter School of the Jean Monnet Chair in EU Money Law (graduate level), University of Siena (Italy). Guest lecture on ‘Digital Transformation and Financial Inclusion’, November 2020
• 2019-2020: Master seminar ‘International and European Financial Regulation’ of Prof. Kern Alexander. Tutoring and evaluation of master theses
• 2019-2020: PhD seminar ‘International and European Financial Regulation’ of Prof. Kern Alexander. Tutoring of PhD theses
• 2015-2018: Company Law (undergraduate level), University of Geneva: assistant to Prof. Rita Trigo Trindade
• 2011-2014: Corporate Law (graduate level); Law and Economics (graduate level), University of Geneva, assistant to Prof. Rashid Bahar

Professional Networks

• 2019- : Research Network for Sustainable Finance, University of Zurich: co-founder
• 2020- : Center of Competence for Sustainable Finance, University of Zurich: member
• 2019-2020: International Network for Female Business Scholars ‘Daughters of Themis’: member of the steering committee

Publikationen

Eine vollständige Auflistung der Publikationen von Xenia Karametaxas finden Sie hier.