His research focuses on Asset Pricing, International Finance and Macro-Finance. Ilias holds a PhD in Finance from Warwick Business School, an MSc in Business Mathematics from the Athens University of Economics and Business and a BSc in Economics from the University of Athens. His research has been supported by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Swiss National Science Foundation (NRP - 75 "Big Data"). He has also been a visiting scholar at the USC Marshall School of Business.