Shufan Ma

I am a Doctoral Student in Digital and Green Finance at the Department of Real Estate and Construction Management, School of Architecture and the Built Environment. My research focuses on tokenized assets and bonds and their roles in sustainability and the financial market. My principal supervisor is Prof. Dr. Bertram Steininger and co-supervisor is Prof. Dr. Zan Yang.

Before joining KTH, I was a Scientific Assistant at ETH Zurich. I have published research articles related to the housing market and electronic commerce under the guidance of Prof. Junhua Chen and Prof. Lu Wei since I was an undergraduate. I have published articles in theSocial Indicators Research,Electronic Commerce Research, andJournal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing.

My research is motivated by applying scientific inference and statistical analysis tools, subject to rigorous peer review, to contribute to the application of sustainable and advanced technologies and the improvement of human welfare.

Education

Ph.D. Student (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, expected December 2027)

Master of Economics (The University of Hong Kong, June 2023)

Bachelor of Management (Central University of Finance and Economics, June 2021)

Publications

Wei, Lu*,Shufan Ma, and Maoze Wang. “Understanding the Information Characteristics of Consumers’ Online Reviews: The Evidence from Chinese Online Apparel Shopping.” Electronic Commerce Research, 2023, 1–27.

Chen, Junhua*,Shufan Ma, and Na Liu. “Multi-Dimensional Housing Inequality Index: The Provincial Evidence from China.” Social Indicators Research 165, no. 2 (2023): 633–54.

Chen, Junhua,Shufan Ma, and Ying Wu*. “International Carbon Financial Market Prediction Using Particle Swarm Optimization and Support Vector Machine.” Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, 2021, 1–15.