Prof. Dr. Jan-Alexander Posth
Prof. Dr. Jan-Alexander Posth
ZHAW
School of Management and Law
Fachstelle für Asset Management
Gertrudstrasse 8
8400 Winterthur
Arbeit an der ZHAW
Tätigkeit
Professor für Asset Management
Arbeits- und Forschungsschwerpunkte
Lehrtätigkeit
- MSc Quantitative Investment Strategies
- MSc Sustainable Investments
- MSc Risk Management
- BSc Sustainable Finance
- BSc Banking Management
- MAS/CAS/DAS Sustainable Finance: Fintech and Sustainability
Lehrtätigkeit in der Weiterbildung
Berufserfahrung
- Co-Founder
PanGeo Nature Risk GmbH
03 / 2025 - heute - Strategic Director
EconSight AG
07 / 2023 - heute - Head of Research and Portfolio Management
Tom Capital AG
02 / 2015 - 07 / 2017 - Senior Product Development Manager
STOXX Ltd
04 / 2012 - 01 / 2015 - Head of Fund Derivatives
Landesbank Baden-Württemberg
04 / 2007 - 03 / 2012 - Quantitative Analyst
Deutsche Postbank AG
07 / 2004 - 03 / 2007 - Assistant Professor
Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
02 / 2001 - 06 / 2004
Aus- und Weiterbildung
Ausbildung
- Dr. rer. nat / Physik
Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
02 / 2001 - 06 / 2004 - Diplom / Physik
Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
10 / 1995 - 01 / 2001
Weiterbildung
- CAS Hochschuldidaktik
PHZH Pädagogische Hochschule Zürich
09 / 2021 - Business Creation in ICT
venturelab / Innosuisse Start-up Training
06 / 2020 - Führen in Projekten
SIX Group Academy
08 / 2014
Netzwerk
Mitglied in Netzwerken
- Cost Action 19130 - Fintech and Artificial Intelligence in Finance - Towards a transparent financial industry (FinAI)
- Cost Action 22138 - Recovery of Mining District Network (REMINDNET)
- DIZH Fellows
- DSI (Digital Society Initiative)
- Digital Futures Lab
- SFAA (Swiss Financial Analysts Association)
- GFN (Green Fintech Network)
- SSF (Swiss Sustainable Finance)
ORCID digital identifier
Auszeichnungen
- Best Paper Award: Bio-Value-at-Risk: A Concept to Assessing the Implications of Biodiversity Risks on Portfolio Management using Geospatial Analysis
3rd Conference on Sustainable Banking and Finance CSBF 2025 at University of Napoli Parthenope
07 / 2025 - Excellence in Environmental and Social Impact: Zurich University of Applied Sciences & University of Zurich: Spatial Sustainable Finance Project
Geospatial World Forum
04 / 2025 - Beta Gamma Sigma Member
Beta Gamma Sigma - The international business honor society
04 / 2025 - DIZH Fellow
Digitalisierungsinitiative der Zürcher Hochschulen
12 / 2019
Social Media
Projekte
- Sustainable Digital Finance / Co-Projektleiter:in / laufend
- Spatial sustainable finance: Satellite-based ratings of company footprints in biodiversity and water / Teammitglied / laufend
- Greening the deal: Do acquisitions boost or block environmental transformation? / Teammitglied / abgeschlossen
- Digitising Environmental Impacts using Geospatial Analytics / Co-Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen
- Data-based Screening and Monitoring Methods for Tracking Environmental and Social Dynamic around Gold Mines / Teammitglied / abgeschlossen
- BioVaR – Assessing and Digitizing Risk Exposure Resulting from Biodiversity Loss / Co-Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen
- Investor and Stakeholder Tools for Tracking Companies’ Climate Commitments, Greenwashing and ESG Trends / Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen
- Tech4SDG – Guiding Swiss Asset Managers towards High-Impact SMEs / Teammitglied / abgeschlossen
- Employing Natural Language Processing to identify inconsistencies in companies’ non-financial communication / Teammitglied / abgeschlossen
- Environmental and Social Assessment at Mine Sites using Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics / Teammitglied / abgeschlossen
- Strengthening Swiss Financial SMEs through Applicable Reinforcement Learning / Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen
- Sozial-ökologische Ratingmethode für Produkte und Dienstleistungen entlang ihrer Wertschöpfungskette / Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen
- Evidence-based Sustainable Finance / Teammitglied / abgeschlossen
- Towards Explainable Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Credit Risk Management / Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen
- New Generation of ESG Indices / Co-Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen
- Advanced/AI-supported Rating Models for P2P systems / Co-Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen
- Feeder Structure for the Swiss Social Exchange / Teammitglied / abgeschlossen
- ESG 4.0 – Enabling Sustainable and Responsible Investment leveraging AI and Big Data / Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen
- Hybrid Approach for Robust Identification and Measurement of Investors Driving Corporate Sustainability and Innovation. Design of Policy Tools for Evaluating the Impact of Specific Investors and Assessing the Quality of Companies’ Investor Bases. / Teammitglied / abgeschlossen
- Digitalisierung nicht bankfähiger Vermögenswerte - insbesondere Kunst / Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen
- Deep Learning & Neuronal Networks: Selbstständige KI-Agenten zur Entwicklung von neuartigen Handelsstrategien im Asset Management auf Basis von Self-Play / Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen
- Patentdatentechnologiecluster als Selektor für ESG-relevante Impact-Investing Themen / Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen
- Systematic and Automated Investment Process for Selection of Investment Funds / Stellv. Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen
- Climate Value-at-Risk: Ein Paradigmenwechsel in der nachhaltigen Asset-Allokation durch passive, CO2-Emissions-optimierte Anlagestrategien / Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen
- Patentdaten: Alternative Datenquelle im Asset Management und steuerungspolitischer Impulsgeber? / Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen
- Financial Supervision and Technology Compliance Training Programme / Teammitglied / abgeschlossen
- Investment Process for Niche and Alternative Products / Stellv. Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen
- Währungsabsicherung für KMUs und Pensionskassen / Teammitglied / abgeschlossen
Publikationen
Beiträge in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift, peer-reviewed
- Pfister, N., Kendzia, M. J. and Posth, J.-A. (2024) 'A two-step method for assessing enhanced value in turnaround, spin-off, and value stocks', Investment Management and Financial Innovations, 21(3), pp. 412–429. doi: 10.21511/imfi.21(3).2024.33.
- Guderian, C. C., Posth, J.-A. and Grob, L. (2023) 'Investment decisions and passive portfolio construction utilizing patent analytics : a multi-case study on COVID-19 treatment technologies', The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 92, pp. 66–87. doi: 10.1016/j.qref.2023.08.002.
- Hadji Misheva, B. et al. (2021) 'Audience-dependent explanations for AI-based risk management tools : a survey', Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 4(794996). doi: 10.3389/frai.2021.794996.
- Gramespacher, T. and Posth, J.-A. (2021) 'Employing explainable AI to optimize the return target function of a loan portfolio', Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 4(693022). doi: 10.3389/frai.2021.693022.
- Posth, J.-A. et al. (2021) 'The applicability of self-play algorithms to trading and forecasting financial markets', Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 4(668465). doi: 10.3389/frai.2021.668465.
Beiträge in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift, nicht peer-reviewed
Schwendner, P. and Posth, J.-A. (2024) 'Editorial: Trends in AI4ESG : AI for sustainable finance and ESG technology', Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 7(1448045). doi: 10.3389/frai.2024.1448045.
Buchbeiträge, nicht peer-reviewed
Hadjikyriakou, P., Orpiszewski, T. and Posth, J.-A. (2020) 'Climate indices for listed equity : comparing different methods to minimise climate risk exposure', in FINANCING THE LOW-CARBON ECONOMY : Instruments, Barriers and Recommendations. Zürich: Swiss Sustainable Finance, pp. 20–23. Available at: https://www.sustainablefinance.ch/upload/cms/user/2020_11_19_Financing_the_Low_Carbon_Economy_EN_full_report_final.pdf.
Schriftliche Konferenzbeiträge, peer-reviewed
- Newham, M., Jaggi, D. and Posth, J.-A. (2026) 'Greening the deal : can mergers redirect innovation?', in 20th International Conference on Competition and Regulation (CRESSE), Kos, Greeece, 3-5 July 2026.
- Posth, J.-A. et al. (2026) 'Bio-value-at-risk : a scenario-based concept to assessing the implications of biodiversity risks on financial portfolio management using geospatial analysis', in World Biodiversity Forum (WBF), Davos, Switzerland, 14-19 June 2026.
- Melissa Newham, M., Jaggi, D. and Posth, J.-A. (2026) 'Greening the deal : do acquisitions boost or block clean innovation?', in Young Swiss Economists Meeting (YSEM), Zurich, Switzerland, 12-13 February 2026.
- Jaggi, D., Posth, J.-A. and Guderian, C. C. (2025) 'Detecting innovation profiles : patent analytics for thematic investment strategies', in 25th EURAM Annual Conference, Florence, Italy, 22-25 June 2025.
- Posth, J.-A. (2025) 'Bio-value-at-risk : a concept to assessing the implications of biodiversity risks on portfolio management using geospatial analysis', in 4th CINSC/2025 INFINITI, Edinburgh, Scotland, 8-10 June 2025.
- Jaggi, D., Posth, J.-A. and Guderian, C. C. (2024) 'Identifying the innovation focus : how patent data can help to understand the IP profile of companies', in G-Forum Jahreskonferenz, Ingolstadt, Deutschland, 25.-27. September 2024.
- Jaggi, D., Posth, J.-A. and Guderian, C. C. (2024) 'A novel approach to thematic portfolio construction : patent-based investment decision making', in 33rd European Conference on Operational Research (EURO 2024), Copenhagen, Denmark, 30 June - 3 July 2024.
- Jaggi, D., Posth, J.-A. and Guderian, C. C. (2024) 'Thematic investing : grouping companies along their technology profiles', in R&D Management Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, 17-19 June 2024.
- Jaggi, D., Posth, J.-A. and Guderian, C. C. (2024) 'Patent-based company-level analytics for thematic investing : clustering companies along their technology profiles', in 31st Innovation & Product Development Management Conference (IPDMC), Dublin, Ireland, 5-7 June 2024.
Weitere Publikationen
- Posth, J.-A. et al. (2024) Bio-value-at-risk : a concept to assessing the implications of biodiversity risks on portfolio management using geospatial analysis. SSRN. doi: 10.2139/ssrn.4784271.
- Hauf, P. and Posth, J.-A. (2023) Silicon Valley Bank : (Why) Did regulation and risk management fail to uncover substantial risks?. SSRN. doi: 10.2139/ssrn.4411102.
- Hirsa, A. et al. (2021) Deep reinforcement learning on a multi-asset environment for trading. arXiv. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-22850.
Mündliche Konferenzbeiträge und Abstracts, nicht peer-reviewed
- Jaggi, D., Posth, J.-A. and Guderian, C. C. (2024) 'Thematic investing via patents : portfolio construction along companies' technology profiles', in 10. CARF Luzern, Schweiz, 12.-13. September 2024.
- Posth, J.-A. et al. (2022) 'Reinforcement learning in finance', in ZKB Event, Zürich, Schweiz, 7.April 2022.
- Posth, J.-A. and Spuck, J. (2022) 'Green Innovation und Patente im Energiesektor : von Greenwashing zu Evidenz-basierten Investment-Entscheidungen', in Swiss Association for Energy Economics (SAEE) Jahrestagung 2022 - Green Finance, Zürich, Schweiz, 13. September 2022.
- Posth, J.-A. (2022) 'Wie kann KI nachhaltiges Finanzieren fördern?', in Berlin Science Week - Zürich meets Berlin, Berlin, Deutschland, 4.-8. November 2022.
- Posth, J.-A. and De Meer Pardo, F. (2022) 'A modular framework for reinforcement learning optimal execution', in 7th European COST Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Finance, Bern, Switzerland, 30 September 2022.
- Bican, P., Posth, J.-A. and Guderian, C. C. (2022) 'Patentindikatoren, Patentanalytik und Patentbewertung : von Innovation über SDGs bis hin zu Investitionsentscheidungen', in 22nd EURAM Annual Conference, Winterthur, Switzerland, 15-17 June 2022.
- Posth, J.-A. (2021) 'AI & sustainable investing : the green tech revolution enabling sustainable and responsible investment leveraging AI and Big Data', in FinTech : Regulatory Challenges and Sustainability Opportunities, virtual, 28 April 2021.
- Spuck, J. and Posth, J.-A. (2021) 'Thematic investing in GreenTech : patent-data-driven identification of green technology trends and sustainable investment opportunities', in 6th European COST Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Industry and Finance, online, 9 September 2021.
- Posth, J.-A. and Gramespacher, T. (2020) 'Employing explainable AI to optimize the return target function of a loan portfolio', in Artificial Intelligence in Finance : FinTech HO2020, SupTech Workshop, Hungary, 26 October 2020.
- Posth, J.-A. and Spuck, J. (2020) 'ESG 4.0 : enabling sustainable and responsible investment leveraging AI and big data', in UZH Digital Society Initiative : Fellows Exchange Day, Zurich (Switzerland), 12. November 2020.
- Posth, J.-A. (2019) 'Financial risk management and its behavioral pitfalls : an introduction', in Financial risk management and its behavioral pitfalls : an introduction, Shanghai, China, 17 July 2019.
- Posth, J.-A. (2019) 'Credit risk in banking : an introduction', in 2nd RegTech Workshop, Frankfurt, Germany, 28 June 2019.
- Posth, J.-A. (2019) 'Systemic risk : networks & correlation in a nutshell', in SupTech Workshop, Budapest, Hungary, 15 May 2019.
- Posth, J.-A. (2019) 'The belt and road Initiative and its potential for an ESG revolution : a network view', in Sustainable Investment Along the Belt and Road: Comparative Perspectives, swissnex China, Shanghai, China, 16 July 2019.
- Gramespacher, T. and Posth, J.-A. (2019) 'P2P lending : employing explainable AI to optimize the return target function of a loan portfolio', in 1st European Conference on Risk Management and Big Data Analytics in Finance, Winterthur, 3. September 2019.
Publikationen vor Tätigkeit an der ZHAW
- "Optimization of dispersion-managed optical fiber lines”; IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology (Vol. 20, Issue 6, pp. 946-952, 2002); Schäfer, T.; Laedke, E.W.; Gunkel, M.; Karle, C.; Posth, J.-A.; Spatschek, K.H.; Turitsyn, S.K.
- “Fast optimization procedures for third-order dispersion management”; Optics Communications (Vol. 219, pp. 241-249, 2003); Posth, J.-A.; Schäfer, T.; Laedke, E.W.; Spatschek, K.H.
- “Quasi-particle approach for interacting optical multiple pulses”; Optics Communications (Vol. 246, pp. 529-544, 2005); Posth, J.-A.; Laedke, E.W.; Schäfer, T.; Spatschek, K.H.
- “Reduzierte Modelle zur effizienten Optimierung optischer Übertragungssysteme”; Dissertation, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf; Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Publikationsservice (2004); Posth, J.-A.
Interessenbindungen
Aktuelle Interessenbindungen
- Gesellschafter
PanGeo Nature Risk GmbH, Winterthur
Der ZHAW-Spinoff PanGeo Nature Risk GmbH bezweckt die Erbringung von Beratungs-, Analyse- und Forschungsdienstleistungen für Unternehmen, Politik, Nicht-Regierungs-Organisationen (NGOs) und Verwaltung sowie den Handel mit Lizenzen und Analyseprodukten.
03 / 2025 - heute - Aktionär, Mitarbeiter (Teilzeit)
EconSight AG, Basel
Die Gesellschaft bezweckt die Erbringung von Beratungs-, Analyse- und Forschungsdienstleistungen für Unternehmen, Politik und Verwaltung sowie Handel mit Lizenzen und Analyseprodukten über Internetplattformen.
07 / 2023 - heute