Jakša Cvitanić works in the fields of mathematical finance, financial engineering and economics, and contract theory. He is currently the Richard N. Merkin Professor of Mathematical Finance and the vice-president of the Bachelier Finance Society. He has worked on the theoretical analysis of optimal portfolio selection problems and option pricing problems in financial markets with frictions; the theory of optimal contracting in continuous-time models, with applications to optimal compensation for portfolio managers and executives; designing questionnaires that elicit truthful opinions from the respondents; and the study of formation of prices in financial markets populated by traders who vary in their risk preferences and other characteristics. He has been or was a co-editor of Finance and Stochastics, Mathematical Finance, Mathematics and Financial Economics, and The Frontiers of Mathematical Finance.