Professor Sanders holds the John W. Galbreath Chair and is Professor of Finance at the Fisher College of Business. He has taught at University of Chicago (Graduate School of Business) and University of Texas at Austin as well. During 1997 and 1998, he was Director and Head of Asset-backed and Mortgage-backed Securities Research at Deutsche Bank.

Professor Sanders' research and teaching focuses on fixed-income securities, interest rate behavior, risk management and real estate investment. He has published numerous articles in Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Business, Journal of Fixed Income, Real Estate Economics and Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics as well as other journals. Professor Sanders has served as a consultant to various firms such as Merrill Lynch, Swiss Bank and Morgan Grenfell on the subjects of residential and commercial mortgage design and pricing. In addition, he has worked with various law firms on the subject of security valuation and risk management.