Finance

Choose start date:

Start date:
September 2025

Duration:
Five to six years

Deadline:
Applications are now closed

Fee:
Fully funded

Location:
London, UK

Conduct research to develop a more robust financial system

Within the Department of Finance, our world-class researchers engage with and disseminate research to practitioners, policy-makers and academic colleagues to develop a more robust financial system.

The research interests of faculty span four core themes – Innovation and Asset Pricing, Corporate Finance, Finance and Risk Management, and Financial Analysis. They hold expertise within derivative pricing and hedging, quantitative risk management and asset allocation, financial econometrics, stochastic volatility modelling, credit risk modelling, catastrophe risk analysis, M&A and private equity.

You may also be co-supervised by faculty in other departments in the School, depending on your research interests.

Research centres and partnerships

The Business School is home to several research centres and institutes, offering a diverse range of activities that bring together academics and specialists

The Brevan Howard Centre for Financial Analysis

Where Imperial College London finance faculty collaborate with external academics and industry professionals to develop cutting-edge research, influencing global industry practice and public policy.

The Grantham Institute, Imperial College London

Grantham Institute for Climate Change

Focussing on research relating to a sustainable, resilient, zero-carbon future.

Financial Technology

Acting as a hub for the interdisciplinary research that is needed to develop innovations, reveal insights and answer questions; bringing together the activities of academics, startup companies, established industry and governmental organisations.

Climate Innovation- Accelerating to Net Zero Emissions

Climate Finance and Investment

Works to unlock solutions within capital markets to address the challenges posed by global climate change.

Discover our research centres

Teaching experience

PhD students on the Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) scholarship will undertake 150 hours of teaching assistant duties from year three of the programme. There will be opportunities for PhD students to engage in teaching activities within the Business School’s Finance Masters’.

Name	Thesis	Supervisor
Lu Liu	Essays on Mortgage and Housing Markets	Professor Tarun Ramadorai and Professor Marcin Kacperczyk
Adrian Lam	Three Essays on Sustainable Finance	Dr Claudio Custodio and Professor Marcin Kacperczyk
Salim Baz	Essays in Empirical Financial Economics	Dr Lara Cathcart and Professor Alex Michaelides