Email: C.vasilakis@bangor.ac.uk

Bangor Business School
Hen Goleg, Bangor University, College Road, Bangor, LL57 2DG

Office:Room 1.06, Hen Goleg

Dr Chrysovalantis Vasilakis is Associate Professor(Senior Lecturer) at Bangor University, Department of Business. He has obtained his PhD in Economics in 2013 from Universite Catholque de Louvain. He is also Research Associate at Institute of Economic and Social Research- (IRES)-Universite Catholique de Louvain and The management and Decision Laboratory (MDE-LAB) of the University of Aegean, Department of Financial Engineering and Management. He is Research affiliate  in IZA.
His research interests are in International Migration, applied econometrics with applications in Finance, Health, Education, Economic Growth and Corporate Governance. He is also interested in Big data, Machine learning, Forecasting, Number theory and Partial differential equations.

-Director of Forelab

-Ethics officer 

Postgraduate Teaching: 

• Financial Econometrics (ASB-4408)
• Financial Dissertation (ASB-4909)

Undergraduate Teaching:

• Current Issues in Economics (ASB-2320/3320)
• Econometrics (ASB-3317)

Bangor University: Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education

Supervision of Phd Students: 

• Guan Wang: Essays in Machine Learning with Applications in Finance (Graduated) 
• Yupeng Zhang: Essays in Finance and Chinese Economy 

2023:  BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants: Sustainability Finance and Accounting

2022: AI methods for forecasting credit rating: Welsh Development Bank

2019: ESF 2019-20 (FEC £41,000): CI in Knowledge Economy Skills Scholarships (KESSII) funded Master by Research with industrial placement in 2025 Movement https://2025movement.org/  jointly with Professor K. Nikolopoulos (PI), Wrexham Glyndwr University and ClwydAlyn Housing for the period October 2019 to September 2020 on "Evaluating the effectiveness of current business practices for creating social enterprises: the case of 2025 Movement". (Acceptance in  November  2019)