TANDA ALESSANDRA

Current positions

*March 2026–Present: Associate Professor of Financial Markets and Institutions (Academic Discipline: ECON-09/B9 - Department of Economics, University of Insubria, Varese/Como, Italy.
*September 2020–Present: Member of the Ph.D. Faculty Board - Ph.D. Program in Methods and Models for Economic Decisions, Department of Economics, University of Insubria, Varese/Como, Italy.

Previous Positions:
*December2021–February 2026: Associate Professor of Financial Markets and Institutions (Academic Discipline: ECON-09/B) - Department of Economics and Management, University of Pavia, Italy.
*December 2018 – December 2021 | Assistant Professor (Tenure-track) | Ricercatrice a tempo determinato lett. B (L. 240/2010) - Financial Markets and Institutions (Academic Discipline: SECS-P/11), Department of Economics and Management, University of Pavia, Italy.
*September 2017–December 2018 | Assistant Professor (Non-tenure track) | Ricercatrice a tempo determinato lett. A (L. 240/2010) - Financial Markets and Institutions (Academic Discipline: SECS-P/11), Department of Economics, University of Genoa, Italy.
*June 2013–August 2017 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | Assegnista di Ricerca - Department of Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods, University of Milan, Italy.Research area: Corporate Finance (Academic Discipline: SECS-P/09). Note: This period includes mandatory maternity leave from October 27, 2016, to March 29, 2017.
*March 2013-May 2013 | Research Fellow | Borsista di ricerca - Department of Economics, University of Insubria, Varese/Como, Italy.

Prizes and awards
*July 2024: Virtual Mobility Grant (COST Action CA19130) “Deliverable 13: 2020 annual report distributed via media”. Grant: €1500
*March 2024: Departmental Research Excellence Award (University of Pavia). Funding awarded within the Department of Excellence internal call for the project: “ESG Disclosure and Risk in Supply Chain companies”
*April 2023: Local Organiser Support Grant (COST Action CA19130) as main organizer of the international conference "Diversity challenges for a sustainable fintech" at the University of Pavia
*May-September 2022: Virtual Mobility Grants (COST Action CA19130) “Gender differences in the knowledge and use of Fintech products: is there a role for transparency?”.Total: €1500
*2017: FFABR National Research Grant (MIUR)
*March-May 2013: Research Fellowship Grant (Univ. of Insubria) awarded by the Department of Economics for the
project “The role of venture capital in Europe: innovation and performance”
*2009-2012:PhD Full Scholarship (Univ Cattolica)

Visiting academic positions
*7-10 September 2025: Visiting at HTW Berlin, Berlin, Germany with Erasmus+ Mobility funds
*29 June 2025-3 July 2025: Visiting at Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb, Zagabria, Croatia
*3-13 September 2024: Visiting at HTW Berlin, Berlin, Germany with Erasmus+ Mobility funds
*19-21 December 2023: Visiting at HTW Berlin, Berlin, Germany
*6 September–9 October 2013: Visiting scholar at Bangor Business School, Bangor (Gwynedd), UK
*September 2010–September 2011: Visiting scholar at Bangor Business School, Bangor (Gwynedd), UK

Teaching activities
*University Courses (2011-2026): Extensive teaching experience across Bachelor, Master and PhD levels at Univ. Pavia, Univ. Insubria, Univ.Genoa, and Univ.Milan. Main instructor for core courses including Financial Markets & Institutions (8-9 ECTS), Banking & Finance (6 ECTS), Derivatives (6 ECTS, in English), Wealth Management (6 ECTS) and LAB.O.Skilled Fintech. Delivers the PhD course Laboratory for Financial and Economic Analyses (Introduction to Stata) in English since 2018.
*Student Mentoring: Supervisor for over 190 Bachelor and Master theses.
*Committees & Ph.D. Panels: Served as External Evaluator and PhD Defense Committee Member at international and national institutions, including a Joint Degree with Macquarie University (Australia), Univ. Trento, and Univ. Salento. Regularly sits on public selection boards for academic positions and Erasmus+ mobility grants.
*Teaching for high school students for Third Mission and PNRR orientation projects for the Univ.Pavia and FEDUF

National and international networks
*Since Apr2026:Senior Scientific Advisory Board member for the AI-compliance project "Compliance Copilot". Funder: Innosuisse, Swiss Innovation Agency
*Since May2025:EU research network COST Action CA23157-European Network for Multiple View Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment. Member of WG1 and WG4.
*Since Jan2024:Associated Partner in MSCA Doctoral Network Digital Finance.Funder:EU Horizon Europe MSCA DN2022 call (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-DN-01)DIGITAL.
*Jan2025-Feb2026:Research group member for the 1st Report of the SME Observatory-Capital Markets, coordinated by CETIF (Univ Cattolica) and CONSOB.
*Nov2023-Feb2026:Participant in PRIN PNRR"Climate risk and uncertainty: environmental sustainability and asset pricing"(Local Research Unit-Univ Pavia).PI:S.Muzzioli (Unimore).13/8/2024-14/01/2025 Head of Local Research Unit for maternity leave replacement
*Jun2022-May2025:Participant in PRIN "Fin4Green - Finance for a Sustainable, Green and Resilient Society"(Local Research Unit-Univ Pavia).PI:M.Billio (Ca’ Foscari Univ Venice).
*Nov2020-Oct2024:EU research network COST Action CA19130-Fintech and Artificial Intelligence in Finance, Member of WG1, WG3; Leader of Diversity Team.
*Nov2020-Nov2023:Member of EU funded project PERISCOPE: Pan-European response to the impacts of Covid-19 and future pandemics and epidemics.PI:P.Giudici (Univ Pavia).
*Oct2021-Apr2022:Working Group member for AIFIRM Commission (Italian Financial Industry Risk Managers Association) on Big Data & Advanced Analytics for Risk Management.
*May2021-Oct2021:Member for the EU funded project eXplainable Artificial Intelligence in healthcare Management xAIM, action number 2020-EU-IA-0098.PI:M.C.Demartini (Univ Pavia).
*Jan2019-Aug2021:Research Group Member for the European project “FINTECH-HO2020”, funded by the European Union under Horizon 2020 (Grant Agreement No.825215).PI:P.Giudici (Univ Pavia).
*Sep2016-Mar2018:Member of research project "FinTech"coordinated by CONSOB

-Research contracts and assignments
*Jul2021–Jan2022: Research assignment for the study "Over-indebtedness and debt advice services. The European framework and the situation in Italy" (Sovraindebitamento e servizi di debt advice. Il quadro europeo e la situazione in Italia), commissioned by FONDAZIONE UNIMI, Milan.
*Sept2020-Febr2021: Scientific research assignment for "Technical support and assistance for the definition of financial evaluation systems for enterprises" (Supporto e affiancamento tecnico per la definizione di sistemi di valutazione finanziaria per le imprese), commissioned by Innexta - Consorzio Camerale per il Credito e la Finanza.
*Aug2018-Oct2018: Co-head of the research project "The development of digital business models in banking" (with Schena C.), commissioned by IAI - Istituto Affari Internazionali, Rome, Italy.
- Institutional and Administrative Responsibilities
Current
-Department of Economics, University of Insubria: Web page and activities Coordinator
Previous
-Department of Economics and Management, University of Pavia, Italy:
2022–2026 - Member of the Quality Assurance Committee (AQ - Gruppo di Riesame) for the Bachelor's Degree in Management (CLAM).
2024–2026 - Member of the Departmental International Relations Committee.
2020–2024 - Internship Coordinator for the Bachelor's Degree in Management (CLAM).
2023–2024 - Head of Student Orientation and Outreach for the Department.
2020–2023 - Head of Monitoring for Third Mission Activities (Terza Missione).
2023 - Member of the Departmental Strategic Planning Committee.
2019–2026 - Departmental Coordinator for Research Seminars and Working Papers.
2019–2026 - Designated Departmental First Aid and Emergency Response Officer.
- Scientific organisations & Coordination of academic activities
*Conference & School Organization: Member of scientific and organizing committees for over 15 major events, including international events such as the EUCOST Action CA19130 Conferences/Workshops (Bern 2022, Brussels 2023, Naples 2022), "Women in Fintech and AI" series (Crete 2024, Coimbra 2023, Tirana 2022, Online 2021) and "Environmental Finance for the Common Good" conferences (Pavia 2023, London 2022). Actively involved in organizing international training programs, serving on the organizing committees of HTW Berlin Summer Schools (2023-2025), Pavia BIP (2025), and the Univ. Calabria Training School (2024). Member of the Best Young Researcher Paper Award Committees Contests (2023, 2024). Co-organized key events like the ADEIMF Summer Conference (2016).
*Chairs, Panels & Discussant Activities: Frequently invited to serve as Session Chair, Moderator, or Discussant at prestigious peer-reviewed conferences. Acted as Session Chair at CLIMAR2025 (Modena), IFABS (Nottingham 2013), and Birbeck College (London 2022). Served as Session Moderator for the Fin-Tech H2020 Kick-off (Pavia 2019) and the Financial Contagion Network workshop (2021). Regular Discussant for the ADEIMF Summer Conferences (2015, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2024) and Wolpertinger Conference (Modena 2018).
*Invited Speaker & Seminars: Invited to present research or give lectures at institutions worldwide, including HTW Berlin, Univ. Bradford, Birbeck College, Univ.Crete, Univ. Cluj-Napoca, Univ. Katowice, and Cerved. Invited to a formal hearing before the MEF FinTech Committee (2019) regarding Italian regulatory sandbox frameworks.

Editorial activity
*July 2021–Present:Editorial Board Member of Studies in Risk and Sustainable Development.
*October 2020–Present: Editorial Board Member of Risk Management Magazine (scientific journal of AIFIRM).
*2019–Present:Review Editor for the journal Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence-AI in Finance.
*2026:Guest Editor for the Special Issue “AI's Revolution in Credit Risk: From Traditional Models to Neural
Networks” with A.Agosto and B. Ozturkkal for Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence-AI in Finance.
*2021:Guest Editor for the Special Issue “Women in Fintech” with G. Pisoni, A. Paccagnini, C. Tarantola, A. Shala, and M. Kherbouche for Digital Finance (Springer).
*2021:Guest Editor for the Special Issue “Network Models for Financial Contagion and Systemic Risk” with A. Agosto, S. Qamhieh Hashem and D. Vandone for Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence-AI in Finance.
*2019–2020: Guest Editor for the Special Issue “Financial Intermediation versus Disintermediation: Opportunities and Challenges in the FinTech Era” with M. Duygun and S. Qamhieh Hashem for Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence -
Artificial Intelligence in Finance.
*Ad-hoc Reviewer for national and international peer-reviewed journals in the fields of Financial intermediation and Corporate Finance (GSD 13/ECON-09), including: Accounting, Economics and Law: A Convivium; Artificial Intelligence in Finance; Bancaria; BRQ Business Research Quarterly; Corporate Social Responsibility an Environmental Management; Environment, Development and Sustainability; Digital Finance; Journal of Business and Management Sciences; Journal of Financial Services Research; Journal of Multinational Financial Management; International Journal of Business and Management; International Journal of Business Performance Management; Operational Research; Research in International Business and Finance; Review of Managerial Science.
*Mar2025: Recipient of“2024 BRQ Outstanding Reviewer”Award for reviewers of BRQ Business Rewiew Quarterly

Membership of scientific societies
2025 – Present: Member of the Italian Financial Economists Association (IFEA).
2025 – 2026: Academic Member of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI).
2023 – Present: Research Fellow at the "CAMRisk - Centre for the Analysis and Measurement of Global Risks", Department of Economics and Management, University of Pavia, Italy.
2021 – Present: Member of the Italian Financial Industry Risk Managers Association (AIFIRM).
2019 – Present: Research Fellow at the "CreaRes - Center for Research in Business Ethics and Social
Responsibility", Department of Economics, University of Insubria, Varese/Como, Italy.
2018 – Present: Full Member (Socio Ordinario) of the Italian Academy of Business Administration and Management (AIDEA).
2018 – Present: Full Member (Socio Ordinario) of ADEIMF (Italian Association of Professors of Banking and Finance).
--April 2016 – February 2019: Secretary of the Board (Segretario del Consiglio) of ADEIMF (Italian Association of Professors of Banking and Finance).
January 2015 – August 2017: Founding Member of the "FinGro Lab" (Laboratory on Finance and Growth), Department of Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods, University of Milan, Italy.
2010 – 2017: Corresponding Member (Socio Corrispondente) of ADEIMF (Italian Association of Professors of Banking and Finance).