Gregor Weiss is Professor of Finance at Leipzig University, as well as a Guest Professor of Economics at Keio University, Tokyo. His research covers topics such as bank regulation and supervision, systemic risk in banking and insurance, (quantitative) risk management, financial innovation and digitalization in banking, and dependence modeling with copulas. His research has been published in the Journal of Financial & Quantitative Analysis, Review of Finance, the Journal of Financial Intermediation, the Journal of Banking & Finance, the Journal of Risk and Insurance, and other journals in finance, quantitative finance, and actuarial science. Moreover, his research has attracted funding from the German Science Foundation (DFG), the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, the Mercator Foundation, Commerzbank Foundation, and the German Association for Insurance Science (DVfVW).