I got a PhD in Economics from the University of Alicante in 2006. I am doing research in the area of financial economics and have also taught in this area. Before ISCTE, I worked at the Catholic University of Portugal, and did three internships at the European Central Bank. I was also a visiting scholar at the Sloan School of Management of MIT.

José Carlos Dias is Full Professor of Finance at the Department of Finance of Iscte Business School. He holds a PhD degree in Finance from Iscte and is the Director of the Department of Finance. He was also the Director of the PhD in Finance and the Director of the Master in Finance of Iscte Business School. His current research interests include option pricing, structured products and exotic options, volatility derivatives, real options and credit risk. He has published in the Journal of Banking and Finance, Quantitative Finance, European Journal of Operational Research, European Journal of Finance, Journal of Futures Markets, International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance, Review of Derivatives Research, Journal of Derivatives, and Applied Mathematics and Optimization, among others.

José Dias Curto is full professor at Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL Business School, Quantitative Methods Departament) and investigator at Business Research Unit (BRU-IUL), Lisboa, Portugal. He earned his PhD in Quantitative Methods for Management from the Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), MA in Management from Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL) and Bachellor's degree in Economics from Instituto Superior de Economia, Portugal. His primary research focuses statistics and econometrics with applications to finance, accounting and economics. List of journals where he published: Research in International Business and Finance, Journal of Business Ethics, Annals of Economics and Finance, Economic Computation and Economic Cybernetics Studies and Research Journal, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Journal of Applied Statistics, Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions & Money, Statistical Papers, International Statistical Review, European Accounting Review, Australian Accounting Review.