Professor Dr Lena Tonzer

Current Position
since 9/21
Research Fellow Department of Financial Markets
Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH) – Member of the Leibniz Association
since 5/14
Head of the Research Group Regulation of International Financial Markets and International Banking
Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH) – Member of the Leibniz Association
since 9/21
Assistant Professor
VU Amsterdam
since 5/14
Head of the International Banking Library
Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH) – Member of the Leibniz Association
Research Interests
- banking and sovereign debt crises
- integration of financial markets
- banking regulation
- International Banking Library
Lena Tonzer is Assistant Professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam since September 2021 and a member of the Department of Financial Markets at IWH since May 2014. She is head of the ESF project The Political Economy of the European Banking Union since 2017. In 2019 she joined the SUERF Research Affiliate programme. Her research focuses on banking and sovereign debt crises, integration of financial markets, and banking regulation.
Lena Tonzer received her bachelor's and master's degree from University of Tübingen, and her PhD from European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy. From 2017 to 2021 she taught at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg.