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Dr Weihao Han

Dr Weihao Han
Dr Weihao Han
Dr Weihao Han

Ph.D., M.Sc., B.A., FHEA

Lecturer

Accepting PhDs

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Email Address
weihao.han@abdn.ac.uk
Telephone Number
+44 (0)1224 272492
Office Address
S47 Edward Wright Building
Old Aberdeen Campus
Dunbar Street
AB24 3QY

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Business School
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Biography

Dr Weihao Han is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Finance at the University of Aberdeen. He joined the business school in 2023 after gaining his Ph.D. in Finance (with University Research Studentship Award) at the University of Bath. Weihao also holds an M.Sc. in Financial Forecasting (with Adam Smith Scholar Award for Excellence) from the University of Glasgow, and a B.A. in Economics from Yonsei University.

His research interests primarily include climate finance, empirical and theoretical asset pricing, FinTech, portfolio management, and machine learning with applications in finance. His work has been published in world-leading journals such as European Financial Management, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, and European Journal of Finance.

He is also a member of the Scotland Beyond Net Zero, in which he contributes to tackling urgent climate issues. 

Qualifications

  • Ph.D. Finance 
    2023 - University of Bath 
  • M.Sc. Financial Engineering 
    2018 - University of Glasgow 
  • B.A. Economics 
    2015 - Yonsei University 

Memberships and Affiliations

Internal Memberships

I currently serve as:

  • The Departmental Student Experience Lead
  • Personal Tutor
External Memberships

Fellow of Higher Education Academy

Latest Publications

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Prizes and Awards

  • Best paper award in China Finance Review International Conference ($1,000, 2021), Finance Symposium (2021)
  • Full University Scholarship for the Ph.D. programme at the University of Bath (approximately £120,000)
  • Adam Smith Scholar Award for Excellence for the M.Sc. programme at the University of Glasgow
Research

Research Overview

I am currently working on Climate Finance (Causal Inference), FinTech, NLP, Machine Learning and Deep Learning for finance.

Research Areas

Accepting PhDs

I am currently accepting PhDs in Finance.

Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your research ideas further.

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Finance

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Research Specialisms

  • Financial Economics
  • Finance
  • Applied Economics
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Risk Management

Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is HESA open data, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.

Supervision

My current supervision areas are: Finance.

I invite students with strong computational backgrounds from any relevant discipline to contact us to discuss potential opportunities. Potential interdisciplinary synergies, such as those in economics, marketing, management, psychology, social science, political science, etc., are also deemed valuable.

Teaching

Courses

Teaching Responsibilities

I am currently responsible for:

  • Undergraduate courses
  • Postgraduate courses
  • Undergraduate Dissertation
  • Master Dissertations

 

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