Dr. Alex Zarifis serves as a Lecturer at the University of Southampton and is a research affiliate of the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF). His academic career includes positions at the University of Cambridge, University of Manchester, and the University of Mannheim. He has also contributed to large EU- and UK-funded research projects at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and Loughborough University, and holds a PhD from the University of Manchester.

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