Gelman is a lecturer in the Department of Finance and has worked at Concordia University since 2017.
He had several stints into investment banking and venture capital before getting his PhD from the University of Münster, Germany in 2007.
Subsequently, he worked for ten years as an assistant professor of finance at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. His teaching covers quantitative finance, corporate finance and macroeconomics. He conducts research in empirical asset pricing and empirical corporate finance and has multiple publications in finance and economics journals.