Prof Hans Van Der Heijden

Post:	Professor of Accounting (Accounting and Finance)
Location:	JUBILEE BUILDING JUB-253
Email:	H.Vanderheijden@sussex.ac.uk
Telephone numbers
Internal:	3701
UK:	01273 873701
International:	+44 1273 873701

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Biography

I am a Professor of Accounting at the University of Sussex Business School. I hold a Ph.D. in Business Management from Erasmus University Rotterdam. Before my academic career I worked at PwC Consulting, specialising in IT project management.

I am currently working on neural networks and artificial intelligence, with applications to company health prediction and detection of suspicious or fraudulent transactions.

More broadly, my area of research is data analytics in accounting and auditing. My publications have appeared in a range of journals including MIS Quarterly, Journal of Business Research, Decision Support Systems, British Accounting Review, and Behavioral Research in Accounting. According to Google Scholar, my work has been cited over 7000 times.

I have a keen interest in accounting education, and am currently on the board of the Special Interest Group on Accounting Education of the British Accounting & Finance Association.

I was previously Acting Head and Deputy Head of the University of Sussex Business School, and worked on workload allocation and EQUIS accreditation.

I am currently an external examiner for the accounting programs at the London School of Economics.