Bertrand Melenberg is a research fellow at CentER, Tilburg University, professor in Econometrics and Quantitative Finance at the Department of Econometrics & OR, Program Director of the MSc Economics and Finance of Aging, and senior researcher at Netspar. He is also part-time affiliated to the Finance Department of the University. His research interests cover various fields such as Empirical Micro-Econometrics and Empirical Finance (Asset Pricing). He taught various courses in econometrics, finance, and statistics at both undergraduate and graduate level and supervised several Ph.D. students.