Evgeny Lyandres is a Visiting Professor of Finance at Monash Business School, holding a primary appointment as a Professor of Finance and Head of Hogeg Blockchain Research Institute at Tel Aviv University. Evgeny’s research focuses on the interaction between firms’ financial and operating strategies, and on the effects of product market competition on various firms’ financial decisions, such as capital structure choices, M&A strategies and the going public choices. He is also interested in applications of real options theory to firms’ financial and investment decisions. Recently, his research focus shifted largely to applications of blockchain technology in finance. His theoretical and empirical papers have been published in leading finance journals, such as the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Management Science, Journal of Business, Review of Finance, and Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis among many others. Evgeny is a Co-editor of the Journal of Corporate Finance and an Associate Editor of several other journals.