Christian Brownlees is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics and Finance at LUISS Guido Carli, and an Associate Professor (currently on leave) in the Department of Economics and Business at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. He received a B.S. in Economics and Quantitative Methods in 2003 and a Ph.D. in Statistics in 2007 from the University of Florence (Università di Firenze). From 2007 to 2011, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the NYU Stern School of Business. From 2011 to 2017, he served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics and Business at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and has held a tenured position there since 2017.

His research has been published in leading academic journals, including The Review of Financial Studies, The Annals of Statistics, and the Journal of Econometrics.