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Dr Nikodem Szumilo

Nikodem is an Associate Professor at UCL - University College London and the Director of the Bartlett Real Estate Institute, housed within the world's top-ranked faculty of built environment according to QS 2023. He is also a Lecturer at University of St Gallen.

Nikodem previously worked at the London School of Economics after completing his PhD at Cambridge University. He also holds the position of an academic visitor at the Bank of England and serves as a Research Affiliate at the UCL Centre for Finance.

In addition to being published in leading academic outlets, his work has been featured in leading non-academic outlets such as the Financial Times, Harvard Business Review, World Economic Forum - Strategic Intelligence, the Guardian, Bloomberg Businessweek or IPE Magazine.

Dr Thomas Wiegelmann

Dr Thomas Wiegelmann has over 25 years of experience in real estate across investment & asset management, consultancy and corporate finance. In 2009, he co-founded BLUE Asset Management, a real estate investment boutique with two partners which grew to over EUR 1.2 bln in AuM by end of 2018. In Q1 2019, Schroders Group acquired BLUE as part of its strategy to strengthen its private assets capabilities. Following the acquisition, Thomas continued as Managing Director at Schroders until year-end 2024.
Thomas holds an Honorary Professorship at UCL’s Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, where he connects industry practice with academic insight. He is also a lecturer at University of St. Gallen. He is an alumnus of Harvard Business School, having graduated from the Owner/President Management Program (OPM). He sits on the Harvard Real Estate Alumni Board. Thomas participated in the International Directors Program (IDP) at Insead.

Dr Monika Szumilo

Monika is a Physics Lecturer at University College London as well as University of St. Gallen, and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy with a passion for teaching practical AI and advancing Machine Learning algorithms. She has been teaching practical AI as well as developing Machine Learning algorithms for research at Imperial College London and UCL since 2020.

Monika's educational background includes completing her MPhil and PhD at the University of Cambridge. She has also taught at institutions such as Imperial College London and City, University of London. Through her diverse teaching experiences, Monika has successfully delivered complex concepts in Data Science, programming, and mathematics to both undergraduate and postgraduate students. Her expertise spans across a wide array of disciplines, encompassing Physics, Astronomy, Aerospace Engineering, as well as Business and Management.

Prof Roland Füss

Prof. Dr. Roland Füss is a full professor of Real Estate Finance at the University of St. Gallen and a member of the board of the Swiss Banking and Finance Institute (SBF-HSG) at the School of Finance. He also serves as academic director of the Master of Banking and Finance program at the University of St. Gallen.

Roland Füss is a faculty member of the Swiss Finance Institute (SFI), a research fellow with the Center for Real Estate and Environmental Economics at NTNU Business School in Trondheim, and a Weimer School Fellow at the Homer Hoyt Institute in North Palm Beach, Florida, USA. He is a member of the editorial board of several scientific journals. His main research interests are real estate finance and economics, automated valuation models, real estate valuation, sustainable real estate, private debt, and applied financial and spatial econometrics.

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