Spyridon Lagaras is an assistant professor of finance at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Gies College of Business. His research broadly lies in the intersection of corporate restructuring, entrepreneurship, and labor economics, with a particular focus on leveraging large datasets to examine the role of human capital in motivating and shaping restructuring decisions by firms. Recent papers aim to understand the economic mechanisms through which restructuring events shape rent-sharing practices in employer-employee relationships and the channels through which technological shifts in the labor market and frictions in the institutional environment affect the employment trajectory and decisions of individuals. His scholarly contributions have been extensively presented in academic and professional conferences and published in leading finance journals, including the Journal of Finance and the Journal of Financial Economics. Lagaras has been the recipient of grants from the Kauffman Foundation and the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research. He holds a B.Sc. in electrical and computer engineering from the National Technical University of Athens and a Ph.D. in finance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.