Ing. Tomáš Heryán, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
School of Business Administration
Department of Finance and Accounting
Univerzitni nam. 1934/3
733 40 Karvina
Czech Republic
Tom Heryán graduated in January 2013 from Business Economics & Management at the School of Business Administration, Silesian University in Opava. However, during his doctoral studies, he was already working at the Department of Finance, SU SBA. His Ph.D. thesis focused on the analysis of the Czech credit market. Among those recent publications are papers published in TOURISM ECONOMICS (ISSN 1354-8166) or ECONOMIC MODELLING (ISSN 0264-9993). Between 2005-2007 he worked in the selling department of ING Group and holds certificates issued by the Czech National Bank to work in the particular profession. In the winter semester of 2011, he cooperated with the Centre for EMEA Banking, Finance, and Economics at London Metropolitan University. Between 2013-2015 he participated in 'Banking Sector and Monetary Policy: Lessons from New EU Countries after Ten Years of Membership' supported by the Czech Science Foundation (GAČR 13-03783S). Between 2021-2022 he also collaborated with the Faculty at University Ostrava as an applied statistician, while participating in two research projects, Healthy Aging in an Industrial Environment (HAIE, CZ.02.1.01/0.0/16_019/0000798) and also the Centre for Advanced Biomedical and Medical Informatics (CeBMI, 612462-EPP-1-2019-1-SK-EPPKA2-KA-P2). He is currently participating in a research project related to corporate governance and retained earnings among European tourism companies.
Tom leads two courses, BA Financial Markets, and MA Investment Instruments & Strategies. Furthermore, he has also lectured other courses, i.e. Financial Analysis, Corporate Finance, Finance in Business, International Financial Management. He is a member of scientific board of journal "Studia Universitatis Vasile Goldis Arad, Seria Stiinte Economice", ISSN 1584-2339.
Professional and research orientation
Financial markets, Banking, Credit market, Foreign capital and financing companies.