Larisa is a Director of the BSc Finance Program and Deputy Head of the Center of Digital Finance at the University of Southampton in the UK. Larisa is a subject editor for the Journal of International Financial Markets and Institutions and Money as well as an associate editor for the journals International Review of Financial Analysis and International Review of Economics and Finance. Larisa also works as Data in Brief's Economics Editor and Section Editor for the Heliyon Business and Economics section. She organized and chaired CRC in 2018 and 2019, Larisa also published her research in scholarly journals like the Journal of Financial Stability, Energy Economics, Economics Letters, International Review of Financial Analysis, Journal of International Financial Markets, and Institutions and Money, among others. She is a prominent author in the field of fintech and cryptocurrencies.