Professor Mollica is Head of the Applied Finance Department. Professor Mollica’s research centres on securities market design, FinTech, asset  selection criteria, quantitative investment research and residential property price dynamics.  He is currently working on issues related to cryptocurrency, high frequency traders, market transparency, institutional execution costs and property marketing strategies. Professor Mollica has published in leading finance and accounting journals including Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Financial Markets, ABACUS, Journal of Futures Markets, and Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal. Professor Mollica has provided policy advice to the Australian Financial Markets Association, Financial Services Council, Australian Securities Exchange and Financial Conduct Authority (UK), he was also the Head of the Market Quality-Finance of the $32.3m Capital Markets CRC. Professor Mollica has been awarded multiple prizes including the Australian Council of Graduate Research Prize for Excellence in Promoting Industry Engagement in Graduate Research, Marie Curie Fellowship (Aarhus University, Denmark), and multiple Dean's prize for excellence in Teaching. Previously, Professor Mollica was the Associate Dean of Higher Degree Research at the Macquarie University Business School, responsible for the development and promotion of the school’s higher degree research training program and for monitoring research performance and quality.