Ally is currently an Assistant Professor/Lecturer in Finance at Lancaster University Management School. She received her Ph.D. in financial economics with Summa Cum Laude from Swiss Finance Institute and Department of Banking and Finance at University of Zürich. During her Ph.D, she was a visiting Doctoral scholar at London School of Economics. Previously, she obtained her Master of Philosophy (research degree) in Banking and Finance from University of New South Wales (Australia) and a Bachelor degree in Management from Fudan University Management School (China).

Ally’s research focuses on theoretical asset pricing, macro-finance, general equilibrium and computational finance and economics.