Leopold Sögner obtained his doctoral degree from the Vienna University of Economics and Business. He joined IHS in 2008 from the Vienna University of Technology and has since served as director of Graduate Studies, lead a research group with focus on financial markets and econometrics, and is currently a Head of the research group Business Cycles, Growth and Public Finances alongside Sebastian Koch. In 2018 he was guest professor at NYU Abu Dhabi. Since 2010 he has been faculty member at the Vienna Graduate School of Finance and has been principal investigator in research several grants. 

His research interests are asset pricing and applied econometrics. His work has been published in journals such as the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Applied Probability, and Econometric Reviews.