Before this current appointment, Axel Kind was Assistant Professor and head of the Corporate Finance Division at the University of Basel from 2008 to 2013, lecturer at the University of St. Gallen from 2004 to 2007 and held research and teaching positions at different foreign universities: the Stern School of Business of New York University (2008), the Computer Science Department of the University of California, Los Angeles (2003-2004), the Graduate School of Business of Columbia University (2002-2003), and the University of Novosibirsk (2001). 

He is also the member of the Advisory Board at Plattform Saule Schweiz (PSS AG) in Switzerland, where offers the best solution for all who wish to obtain capital disbursement of their pension savings upon retirement in Switzerland. 

His areas of research are Quantitative Finance, Corporante Finance, Household Finance, Behavioral Finance and the Numerical Derivatives Pricing.