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Gonul Colak is a Professor of Accounting and Finance, currently serving as the Head of the Department of Accounting and Finance at the University of Sussex. Between September 2022 and November 2024, he also served as the Director of Research in the same department. Since January 2022, he has held a fractional Professor of Finance position at Hanken School of Economics, where he served as the director of the PhD program in finance. Recently, he was a visiting scholar at Stern School of Business in New York University, Fordham University, and Turkish Central Bank's Istanbul School of Central Banking in Turkey. Previously, he held academic positions at Florida State University and Wichita State University. He also served as the chairman of the Graduate School of Finance (GSF) in Finland and was a member of the board in the Nordic Finance Network (NFN). He was also a member of the international advisory board of Sebelas Maret University in Indonesia for a period of three years. He currently serves as an associate editor for the Journal of Financial Stability and The Financial Review.

His past academic work focused on corporate restructurings, equity issuance, political uncertainty, financial econometrics, firm capital structure, and corporate governance. He has publications in high-quality journals such as Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Review of Accounting Studies, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Financial Intermediation, and Journal of Corporate Finance. According to Scopus, his published work has been cited more than 1200 times, some of which are in high-impact journals. His current research interests cover a variety of topics, such as external financing of firms, CEO incentives, financial accounting, exchange delistings, investor relations, ESG/CSR, financial intermediation and banking, and monetary policy transmission.

Dr. Jandik's research has been published in top finance and business journals such as the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Financial Management, the Journal of Corporate Finance, and the Journal of International Business Studies. His work has been featured in the Financial Times, on National Public Radio, as well as in popular business and industry journals such as Dow Jones MarketWatch, Chief Executive Magazine, Risk Management Magazine, and EnergyBiz. His research has also been presented at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. He served as an Associate Editor for The Financial Review (2015-2021).