Dr Emmanouil Platanakis joined the University of Bath School of Management in October 2017 as an Assistant Professor of Finance, and promoted to Associate Professor in February 2021. He holds a PhD in Finance from Henley Business School (ICMA Centre - University of Reading, UK) under the supervision of Professor Charles Martin Sydenham Sutcliffe as well as an MSc in Operational Research (School of Mathematics - University of Southampton, UK) and an MEng in Electrical and Computer Engineering (Aristotle University, Greece).

Dr Emmanouil Platanakis' research focuses on portfolio theory, financial forecasting, asset pricing, machine learning, investments, cryptofinance, fintech, and estimation risk management, among others.

His research work has been published (or accepted for publication)  in a wide variety of leading peer-reviewed academic journals (ABS:3/4) such as the European Journal of Operational Research (2x - ABS:4, ABDC:A*), Insurance: Mathematics and Economics (1x - ABS:3, ABDC:A*), International Journal of Forecasting (2x - ABS:3, ABDC:A), European Financial Management (1x - ABS:3, ABDC:A), European Journal of Finance (2x - ABS:3, ABDC:A), British Accounting Review (4x - ABS:3, ABDC:A*), Tourism Management (1x - ABS:4, ABDC:A*), Review of Quantitative Finance & Accounting (1x - ABS:3, ABDC:A), Economics Letters (2x - ABS:3, ABDC:A), and others. In addition, Emmanouil has several working/discussion papers which are currently under revision (or review) in ABS: 3/4 journals.

Emmanouil's research work has been presented at leading international conferences such as the University of Rochester Conference in Econometrics, the Paris December Finance Meeting (Top-2 in Europe - Finance), the Annual Meeting of the Swiss Society for Financial Market Research (SGF, Top-3 in Europe - Finance), the Financial Management Association Annual Meeting (FMA-US), the Financial Management Association European Conference (FMA-Europe), the Chinese Finance Annual Meeting (CFAM), the European Financial Management Association (EFMA) Annual Conference, the Southwestern Finance Association Conference (SWFA), the Paris Financial Management Conference, the International Conference of the French Finance Association (AFFI), the International Conference on Quantitative Finance (Forecasting Financial Markets - FFM), the World Finance Conference, the Global Finance Conference, the Annual Conference of the Multinational Finance Society (MFS), and the Conference of the Portuguese Finance Network (PFN), among many others, as well as at several research seminars (Boston College, Fudan University, Peking University, Swedish House of Finance, etc.), professional organizations and practitioners' conferences such as the Netspar, the Amundi Asset Management, and the Quantitative Finance and Risk Analysis (QFRA) symposium.

Emmanouil is a regular reviewer for leading journals such as Management Science, European Journal of Operational Research (x11), International Journal of Forecasting (x9), British Journal of Management, Journal of Futures Markets, Financial Review, Annals of Operations Research (x2), European Journal of Finance (x19), British Accounting Review (x9), Economics Letters (x3), and many others, while his research work and doctoral studies have received funding from professional organizations and academic institutions such as the Netspar, the Amundi Asset Management and the ICMA Centre (University of Reading).

I am interested in supervising PhD students - please contact me by email if you have a project proposal or ideas that fit my research interests described above.

I currently lead a team of 5 doctoral candidates who mainly conduct research on portfolio management and asset pricing with machine learning.