Prior to joining the University of Melbourne, Carsten Murawski was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Zurich. He has been a visiting researcher at New York University and at Columbia University, New York and has taught at undergraduate and graduate level at the University of Melbourne, the University of Zurich and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich. Before becoming an academic Carsten spent several years in the finance industry in London and New York.