Stefan Mittnik is a Professor of Financial Econometrics (retired) at the Ludwig Maximilian University Munich and a Fellow at the Center for Financial Studies in Frankfurt and at the CESifo Research Network in Munich. He is also the co-founder of Europe’s leading robo-advisor, Scalable Capital. He works in the areas of financial econometrics, time series analysis, risk management, and on issues of real and financial sector interactions. Dr. Mittnik received his PhD in economics and applied mathematics from Washington University in St. Louis. He was previously on the faculty of Stony Brook University and the University of Kiel, Germany. He has been a member of the Economics Review Board of the German Science Foundation, a member of the scientific advisory board of the Deutsche Bundesbank, has served on the supervisory board of Union Investment, one of the leading German mutual fund companies, and on the editorial boards of several scientific journals.