• Ph.D., Finance, Gies College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2018
• M.S., Finance, ALBA Graduate Business School, The American College of Greece, 2011
• M.B.A., Finance, Athens University of Economics and Business, 2010
• B.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 2008

• Assistant Professor of Finance, Finance, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2024 to present
• Assistant Professor of Finance, Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh, 2018-2024

• Lagaras, S., Denes, M., & Tsoutsoura, M. Forthcoming. Entrepreneurship and the Gig Economy: Evidence from U.S. Tax Returns. Journal of Financial Economics.
• Lagaras, S. Forthcoming. M&As, Employee Costs and Labor Reallocation. Journal of Finance.  link >
• Araujo, A., Ferreira, R., Lagaras, S., Moraes, F., Ponticelli, J., & Tsoutsoura, M. (2023). The Labor Effects of Judicial Bias in Bankruptcy. Journal of Financial Economics, 150 (2).  link >
• Colonnelli, E., Lagaras, S., Ponticelli, J., Prem, M., & Tsoutsoura, M. (2022). Revealing Corruption: Firm and Worker Level Evidence from Brazil. Journal of Financial Economics, 143 (3), 1097-1119.  link >

• Katz Excellence in Research Award, University of Pittsburgh, 2023
• Katz Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Pittsburgh, 2023

• Washington Center for Equitable Growth, Washington Center for Equitable Growth, 2024-2025
• W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research Early Career Research Award, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2022-2023
• Kauffman Foundation Knowledge Challenge Grant, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, 2020-2023,2022-2025
• Annie E. Casey Foundation Grant, Annie E. Casey Foundation, 2020-2022
• Block Center for Technology and Society Grant, Carnegie Mellon University, 2019-2020

Corporate Finance, Venture Capital, Private Equity, Entrepreneurship

Corporate Restructuring, Labor and Finance, Entrepreneurship, Development