Verena Hagspiel is a Professor of Investment and Finance in the Department of Industrial Economics and Technology Management at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

She received her MSc. in Technical Mathematics from the Technical University of Graz in 2008 and a MSc in Quantitative Finance and Actuarial Sciences from Tilburg University in 2007. In 2011 she received her Ph.D. in Economics from Tilburg University. Before joining NTNU she has worked as a Post-doctoral Researcher at the Department of Mathematics at the University of Lisbon and the Department of Operations at the University of Lausanne.

Her primary fields of interest are microeconomics, industrial economics, energy economics and quantitative finance. Specifically she applies financial and operational methods for analyzing investment decisions under uncertainty. She is interested in how dynamics and uncertainty affect the firm’s investment and innovation behavior. During the last years she has led several projects developing decision support and policy insight for the energy sector.
In another line of research, she uses quantitative finance tools to support decision making in operations management. Here she applies option pricing techniques to evaluate risk exposure in supply chain management.

Key interests: Decision making under uncertainty, Real options valuation, Energy policy, Technology adoption