Juliane Proelss, PhD

Professor Dr. Juliane Proelss studied business administration at Katholische Universität Eichstaett-Ingolstadt in Ingolstadt, and completed a postgraduate diploma in commerce at Lincoln University, Canterbury, New Zealand.  In June 2009 she completed a doctorate at European Business School (EBS) in Oestrich-Winkel with a thesis entitled “Strategy Optimization for Alternative Investments”.  During her doctorate, she worked as research assistant at the PFI Private Finance Institute / EBS Finance Academy in Oestrich-Winkel and was responsible for consulting projects as well as the conception of executive education programs.  Furthermore, she gained teaching experience in trainings for the executive education.  She was awarded the titles of Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA), Certified Financial Planner (CFP), Certified Foundation and Estate Planner (CFEP).

In July 2009 Juliane Proelss joined the Risk Management Department of Santander Consumer Finance, Mönchengladbach and was responsible for credit analysis and refinancing.  In November 2012 Juliane Proelss was appointed professor in business administration specialized in financial management at Trier University of Applied Sciences.  In January 2015 she joined Concordia University, Montreal as assistant professor in finance.  She published several articles in the field of modern financing instruments and corporate finance in renowned journals and books.  Her innovative research ideas received competitive research grants from e.g. the Fonds de Recherche du Québec -Société et Culture (FRQSC) and the Education of Good Governance Fund of Autorité des Marchés Financiers of about $200,000. Juliane Proelss is teaching in BSc and MSc university level as well as in executive education programs.

Education

Doctorate (European Business School)

Areas of expertise

• Alternative Investments
• Blockchain
• Chinese Capital Markets
• Commodities
• Corporate Finance
• Cryptocurrency
• Entrepreneurial Finance
• Fraud
• Hedge Funds
• Rare Earth Materials
• Risk Management
• Venture Capital

Selected Publications

1. McGowan, A.L., Boyd, Z.M., Kang, Y., Bennett, L., Mucha, P.J., Ochsner, K.N., Bassett, D.S., Falk, E.B., Lydon-Staley, D.M. (accepted). Within-person temporal associations among self-reported physical activity, sleep, and well-being in college students. Psychosomatic Medicine. Preprint:  https://psyarxiv.com/q4jn3

2. McGowan, A.L., Parkes, L., He, X., Stanoi, O., Kang, Y., Lomax, S., Jovanova, M., Mucha, P.J., Ochsner, K.N., Falk, E.B., Bassett, D.S., & Lydon-Staley, D.M. (2022). Controllability of structural brain networks and the waxing and waning of negative affect in daily life. Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsgos.2021.11.008

3. McGowan, A.L., Falk, E.B., Zurn, P., Bassett, D.S., & Lydon-Staley, D.M. (2022). Daily and momentary sensation-seeking and urgency in young adults: Associations with risk-taking and sleep. Addictive Behaviors, 127, 107219. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2021.107219

4. McGowan, A.L., Gerde, H.K., Pfeiffer, K.A., & Pontifex, M.B. (2022). Meeting 24-hour movement behavior guidelines in young children: Improved quantity estimation and self-regulation. Early Education and Development. doi: 10.1080/10409289.2022.2056694

5. McGowan, A. L., Chandler, M.C., & Pontifex, M.B. (2021). Aerobic fitness relates to superior exact and approximate arithmetic processing in college-aged adults. Trends in Neuroscience & Education, 23(2021), 100154

6. McGowan, A.L., Bretzin, A.C., Anderson, M., Pontifex, M.B., & Covassin, T. (2021). Paired cognitive flexibility task with symptom factors improves detection of sports-related concussion in high school and collegiate athletes. Journal of the Neurological Sciences, 428(2021), 117575

7. McGowan, A.L., Chandler, M.C., Brascamp, J.W., & Pontifex, M.B. (2019). Pupillometric indices of locus-coeruleus activation are not modulated following single bouts of exercise. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 140, 41-52

Preprints (in review): 
1. McGowan, A.L., Sayed, F., Boyd, Z.M., Jovanova, M., Kang, Y., Speer, M.E., Cosme, D., Mucha, P.J., Ochsner, K.N., Bassett, D.S., Falk, E.B., Lydon-Staley, D.M. (in review). Dense sampling approaches for psychiatry research: Adventures with scanners and smartphones

2. Wang, X., McGowan, A.L., Fosco, G.M., Falk, E.B., Bassett, D.S., & Lydon-Staley, D.M. (in review). A socioemotional network perspective on momentary experiences of family conflict in young adults. Preprint: 10.31234/osf.io/wj92g

3. McGowan, A.L., Chandler, M.C., & Gerde, H.K. (in review). Infusing physical activity into early childhood classrooms: Guidance for best practices. 

Selected Conference Presentations

McGowan, A.L., Sayed, F., Boyd, Z.M., Jovanova, M., Kang, Y., Speer, M.E., Cosme, D., Mucha, P.J., Ochsner, K.N., Bassett, D.S., Falk, E.B., Lydon-Staley, D.M. (accepted). Dense sampling approaches for psychophysiological research: Current reality and future possibilities for studying real-world behavior [Poster]. Society for Psychophysiological Research Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC, September 28-October 1, 2022. 

McGowan, A.L. & Lydon-Staley, D.M. (accepted). Exploring parent-child dyadic networks to design a smartphone-based mindfulness intervention for underserved families [Poster]. The Association of Computing Machinery International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction, Vancouver, BC, September 28-October 1, 2022.

McGowan, A.L. (2022). Combining smartphones and scanners: Controllability of structural brain networks and the waxing and waning of negative affect in young adults’ daily life. In N. Chaku & A.M. Beltz (Chairs), Intensive longitudinal methods for studying multidimensional developmental processes [Symposium]. Association for Psychological Science 34th Annual Convention, Chicago, IL, United States. 

McGowan, A.L. (2022). Network analysis of within-person associations among physical activity, sleep, and wellbeing in college students’ daily lives. Presented to Higher-Order Models in Network Science: A NetSci 2022 Satellite Workshop.