Dr. Parvati Neelakantan

Dr. Parvati Neelakantan is an Assistant Professor of Finance at Dublin City University Business School. Her research lies in the areas of Environmental Finance and Financial Data Science.  Her papers have appeared in The European Journal of Finance, Economics Letters, and in the Springer book, Applied Operations Research and Financial Modelling in Energy Practical Applications and Implications, edited by Dorsman, et. al. respectively.

Parvati teaches Financial Instruments and Strategies, Financial Statements and Ethics, Financial Econometrics, Financial Risk Management, and Data Analysis. Across the undergraduate, executive and graduate levels, she has lectured and tutored in machine learning modules at University College Dublin, Institute of Bankers in Ireland, and 2021 Financial Time-Series Modelling in R Workshop organised by the Department of Economic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.

Parvati holds bachelors and masters degrees in Mathematics from University of Delhi and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, respectively. She also earned a masters degree in Finance at University College Dublin (UCD) with a full scholarship and the distinction of being inducted as a Global Ambassador of UCD Michael Smurfit Business School. She was awarded the Valuation and Risk Partnership (VAR), Science Foundation Ireland fellowship to pursue her PhD in Finance at the Business School in UCD in 2018.

She has earned several awards and laurels from University of Delhi and the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, University College Dublin in addition to the prestigious international scholarships awarded by the European Erasmus Program. Parvati completed her PhD in Finance from UCD in May 2022.