Dr. Xi Chen has joined the University of Sussex Business School in November 2019 as a Lecturer in Finance. Before joining Sussex, she obtained her PhD from the ICMA Centre, Henley Business School, University of Reading in 2014 under the supervision of Professor Carol Alexander and Professor Charles Ward. Since then she worked for the University of Oxford as a (Visiting) Research Associate for a year and a half, and Oxford Risk Ltd (an Oxford University spin-out), as a Behavioural Scientist for four and a half years. She currently remains affiliated with Oxford Risk as an associate research fellow. Her research mainly focuses on generating insights about financial market movements and investor activities, and developing practically applicable innovations and technology.