Diane Pierret is Assistant Professor at the Department of Finance at the University of Luxembourg and a Research Affiliate of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). Her research in the field of empirical banking has led her to investigate questions related to banks’ responses to regulatory stress testing practices, consequences of unconventional central bank interventions, sovereign-bank linkages, bank profitability and monetary policy, and the interaction between solvency and liquidity regulations. Prior to joining the University of Luxembourg, she was Assistant Professor at the University of Lausanne and Faculty Member of the Swiss Finance Institute. She worked before at the Volatility Institute at NYU Stern School of Business and obtained her PhD in Statistics from the Université Catholique de Louvain.