Lena Tonzer is a post-doctoral researcher at the Financial Markets Department of the Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH). She coordinates the research group "Regulation of International Financial Markets and International Banking". Lena has obtained her PhD from the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence. Prior to that, she studied International Economics at the University of Tübingen. Her research focuses on banking and sovereign debt crises, integration of financial markets, and banking regulation.