Dr Devraj Basu has been appointed as Senior Research Engineer at the EDHEC Risk and Asset Management Research Centre.

Dr Basu's areas of research include asset pricing, asset allocation, and continuous time finance. In his new role at EDHEC, he will be focusing on designing efficient benchmarks and hedge fund replication.

Prior to joining EDHEC, Dr Basu was a lecturer in finance at Cass Business School, City University in London and at Warwick Business School in Coventry (UK), where he taught Fixed Income Securities and Derivatives, Stochastic Methods and Asset Pricing.

He holds a PhD in Mathematics from Indiana University and was granted a Graduate Student Stipend research award to attend the Special Year on Operator Algebras at the Fields Institute.

He has organised and spoken at a number of academic seminars in the field of finance and has authored several papers on conditional asset pricing and dynamic asset allocation.