Connect with the Space Finance Institute for collaboration, enquiries and engagement
The Space Finance Institute values dialogue with researchers, practitioners, regulators, journalists, and anyone interested in understanding the physical foundations of financial markets. Whether you're interested in collaboration, have questions about our research, or would like to invite us to speak, we'd love to hear from you.
Work that runs across physics, finance and technology is welcome from any discipline. If you have a project in mind, write.
Contact: danielcheah@spacefi.institute
We're available for speaking engagements at academic conferences, industry events, and professional gatherings on topics related to market microstructure, physics, and finance.
Topics include: Light-speed constraints, HFT, market design, regulatory frameworks
Journalists and media professionals seeking expert commentary on market microstructure, high-frequency trading, or the role of technology in finance are welcome to reach out.
We can comment on: Market structure, latency arbitrage, technology, regulation
We work with regulators and policymakers to translate our research into practical insights for market oversight and regulatory frameworks.
Areas: Market fairness, access rules, infrastructure standards, disclosure requirements
Financial institutions, exchanges, and technology providers seeking expert analysis on latency, infrastructure, and market design challenges.
Services: Technical consultation, market analysis, infrastructure assessment
Universities and research institutions interested in partnership, joint research programs, or student collaboration opportunities.
Opportunities: Joint research, student projects, visiting scholar programs
Daniel Cheah, Space Finance Institute. Research collaboration, speaking, media, policy and industry enquiries all reach the same address.
Author contact details also appear in the metadata of each paper on SSRN:
Response Time: We strive to respond to all serious enquiries within 5-7 business days. Given the research-focused nature of our work, please allow adequate time for responses to detailed technical questions.
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We're particularly interested in collaborations that:
Connect physics, computer science, economics, and finance in novel ways to address fundamental questions about market structure.
Use proprietary or hard-to-access datasets on market microstructure, latency, or trading patterns to validate theoretical predictions.
Translate academic research into actionable policy recommendations for regulators and market operators.
Apply structured-finance practice to space assets: financing structures for collateral that cannot be observed or repossessed during transit.
If you have ideas for collaboration or access to resources that could advance this research agenda, we'd love to discuss opportunities. Please reach out via the contact information in our SSRN publications.
The Institute studies how physical distance affects financial markets, so it would be odd to insist collaborators sit in one place. Work runs across time zones and has done from the start.
Whether you're in New York, London, Tokyo, or anywhere else, distance is no barrier to productive research collaboration, though it might add a few milliseconds of latency to our communications.